Prize Winners
Palgrave Macmillan is recognised worldwide as an award-winning academic publisher.
We work with partners such as the Academy of International Business and the International Economics Association, as well as some of the brightest minds in the Humanities, Business and Social Sciences, and are proud that our titles continue to win prestigious prizes year after year.
We continue to have success across all of our subject areas. Please see below a list of our prize winning, shortlisted and highly commended scholarly books.
If you are an author and would like your book to be considered for a prize nomination, or you represent a prize committee interested in a specific book for nomination, please use our prize nomination form.
2017 Mentions
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Shortlisted, H. R.F. Keating Award 2017 (CrimeFest)
Agatha Christie on Screen by Mark Aldridge was shortlisted for the H. R.F. Keating Award 2017 (CrimeFest)
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Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History
BBC Sport in Black and White by Richard Haynes won the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History
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Runner Up, Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2017
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy by Dimitra Fimi was runner-up for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2017
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Shortlisted, The David Bradby Award 2017 (TaPRA)
Contemporary Black British Playwrights
Contemporary Black British Playwrights by Lynette Goddard was shortlisted for The David Bradby Award 2017
2016 Mentions
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Runner-Up, The TaPRA New Career Research in Theatre/Performance Prize
Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism
Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism by Royona Mitra was runner-up for the TaPRA New Career Research in Theatre/Performance Prize
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Winner, SAS McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on Animation
Animated Documentary by Annabelle Honess Roe has won the SAS McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on Animation
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Winner, Elma Dangerfield Prize 2016
Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation
Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation by Sarah Wootton has won the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2016
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Winner, Society of Educational Studies book prize
From Labouring to Learning: Working Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialisation
From Labouring to Learning: Working Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialisation by Michael Ward has won the Society of Educational Studies book prize
2015 Mentions
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Short-list, BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
Love, Marriage and Intimacy among Gujarati Indians
Love, Marriage and Intimacy among Gujarati Indians by Katherine Twamley has been short-listed for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
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Winner, USITT Golden Pen Award
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America by Christin Essin has won the 2015 USITT Golden Pen Award
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Winner, 2015 Inaugural University of Southern Queensland Publication Excellence Awards Authored Research Book
Educational Learning and Development
Educational Learning and Development has won the 2015 Inaugural University of Southern Queensland Publication Excellence Awards Authored Research Book
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2015 SPE Book Award
Education and Emancipation in the Neoliberal Era
Education and Emancipation in the Neoliberal Era by Noah De Lissovoy has jointly won the 2015 SPE Book Award
2014 Mentions
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Winner, 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood
Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood by Alison Winch has been made named a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
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Winner, Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies 2014 Book Prize
Revolutionizing Retail by Kendra Coulter has won the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies 2014 Book Prize
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Winner, 2014 BSC Criminology Book Prize
Becoming Criminal by Don Crewe has won the 2014 BSC Criminology book prize
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Winner, Oral History Association’s 2014 Book Award
Oral History Off the Record has won the Oral History Association’s 2014 Book Award