The Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing (The Sherborne TWF, 12th April 2026, 10.30am)

In the presence of the 2026 judging panel - the acclaimed travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron, award-winning author and bestselling biographer Sara Wheeler and literary agent at Aitken Alexander Associates Emma Paterson - the inaugural, annual £10,000 Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing will be awarded to a published British or European author of bold ambition whose vision and quality of writing encourages understanding between peoples and across societies. The six shortlisted 2026 books and their authors are:
Russia Starts Here by Howard Amos, 
Anima: A Wild Pastoral by Kapka Kassabova, 
Is A River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane,
Greyhound by Joanna Pocock,
Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War by Jen Stout,
Lone Wolf by Adam Weymouth