Duff Cooper’s bookplate,
designed by Rex Whistler
The Duff Cooper Prize
Since 2005 we have been generously supported by
which donates the Champagne for the award presentation,
and contributes £1000 towards the £5,000 prize.
The Duff Cooper Prize
The Winner 2011
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a NovelistBy Robert Douglas Fairhurst
Belknap Harvard
"This book never takes Dickens for granted, but helps us to be surprised - even shocked - that he existed, worked and wrote in the way that he did."
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