Pictures of the week

The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction was awarded on Tuesday 7th June at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Pictured (l-r) are shortlisted authors Lisa McInerney, Cynthia Bond, Elizabeth McKenzie and Hannah Rothschild.

 

On the night, Lisa McInerney took home the prize for her debut, The Glorious Heresies (John Murray Press)

 

The joint winners of this year's Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild, were presented with pigs named after their winning novels at the Small Breeds Farm and Owl Centre in Herefordshire on Saturday 4th June.

 

Bluebird publisher Carole Tonkinson (left) and Pan Macmillan m.d. Anthony Forbes-Watson (right) welcomed new author Lorraine Pascale to Pan Macmillan's office with a glass of champagne on Monday 6th June. Picture: Tom Cookson.

 

Children’s author Caroline Lawrence visited York Museum on Friday 3rd June and Saturday 4th June as a guest author as part of the Eboracum Romans Festival.

 

Sceptre publishing director Carole Welch celebrated the imprint's 30th birthday with authors including Thomas Keneally at a face-painting party held on the rooftop of Hachette's Carmelite House offices in London on Monday 6th June.

 

On Saturday 5th June, Helen Hancocks painted portraits of dogs to promote the publication of How to Look After Your Human (Frances Lincoln), which she has illustrated, at Tales on Moon Lane bookshop in Dulwich, London.

 

On Saturday 4th June, Mostly Books in Abingdon hosted author David Melling (left) and illustrator Korky Paul (second right), who are pictured with their creations Hugless Douglas, Winnie The Witch (bookseller Imogen Hargreaves) and bookseller Mark Thornton.

 

 

On Tuesday 7th June, Sam Angus (right) launched her book The House on Hummingbird Island at The Chelsea Gardener in London with support from her editor Rachel Petty, editorial director at Macmillan Children’s Books.

 

Journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams (second right) launched her book Rise: Surviving and Thriving After Trauma (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) at Daunt Books in London on Monday 6th June, along with Matt Barbet, Bill Turnbull and George Alagiah.

 

To celebrate the publication of Harry Harris' The Immortals, chronicling Leicester City's sensational season, Leicester FC manager ‘Claudio Ranieri’ ate a themed cupcake at the book's launch in Piazza at Sunningdale on Thursday 9th June.