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2022

2022 Prize Winner

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2022 Prize Winner (announced 27th March 2022)

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Video of the 2022 Prize Ceremony at the Laugharne Weekend
27th March 2022


'The Mercury Prize of Books' - NME

The Penderyn Music Book Prize is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles including history, theory, biography, autobiography. It is now in its 8th year.

The 2022 Long List was announced at The Boogaloo, Highgate, London on March 14th 2022

The winner was announced at the Laugharne Weekend on Sunday 27th March 2022

The winner was Darryl W. Bullock for his book:
'The Velvet Mafia'
Published in the UK by Omnibus Press.

Darryl W. Bullock, winning author:
‘I am still shell-shocked after winning the 8th Penderyn Music Book prize, the delicious icing on the rather fantastic cake that is the Laugharne Weekend. When the longlist was announced I was hugely flattered, and when the shortlist came about I felt privileged to be in such incredible company, but I did not for a moment entertain the idea that I might actually win! It’s a massive honour and I am beyond humbled. Huge thanks to the judges, to the team at Penderyn and to everyone involved with the Laugharne Weekend; the kind words spoken, and the support generously demonstrated for The Velvet Mafia will stay with me forever.’
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Previous Winners

2021
Pete Paphides - Broken Greek (Quercus)

2020
Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow - Up Jumped The Devil - The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Omnibus)

2019
Shirley Collins - 'All In The Downs' (Strange Attractor)


2018
Stuart Cosgrove - 'Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul' (Polygon)

2017
Daniel Rachel - 'Walls Come Tumbling Down' (Picador)

2016

Jon Savage - '1966: The Year The Decade Exploded' (Faber)

2015
Mark Lewisohn - ‘The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In' (Little, Brown)

2022 Short List (announced 18th March 2022)

The Velvet Mafia - Darryl Bullock (Ominbus Press)
Rememberings - Sinead O’Connor (Penguin)
There and Black Again - Don Letts (Omnibus Press)
Chaise Longue - Baxter Dury (Corsair)
Lightning Striking - Lenny Kaye (White Rabbit)
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone - Jennifer Otte Bickerdeike (Faber & Faber)
Nina Simone’s Gum - Warren Ellis (Faber & Faber)

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2022 Long List - announced 14th March 2022
at The Boogaloo in Highgate
(And here's a Penderyn Prize 2022 Playlist from Indie Through The Looking Glass, aka Jo Bartlett)

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The Velvet Mafia - Darryl Bullock (Omnibus Press)
Rememberings - Sinead O’Connor (Penguin)
Monolithic Undertow- Harry Sword (White Rabbit)
There and Black Again - Don Letts (Omnibus Press)
Bessie Smith - Jackie Kay (Faber & Faber)
Who Killed Cock Robin ? - Steve Sedley and Martin Carthy (Reaktion)
Bunnyman - Will Sergeant (Constable)
Chaise Longue - Baxter Dury (Corsair)
Lightning Striking - Lenny Kaye (White Rabbit)
Tenement Kid - Bobby Gillespie (White Rabbit)
My Rock n Roll Friend - Tracey Thorn (Canongate)
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone - Jennifer Otte Bickerdeike (Faber & Faber)
Nina Simone’s Gum - Warren Ellis (Faber & Faber)
A Furious Devotion - Richard Balls (Omnibus Press)
The Foghorn’s Lament - Jennifer Lucy Allan (White Rabbit)
Beeswing – Richard Thompson (Faber & Faber)

 2022 Judges

Allan Jones
Laura Barton
Stephen Morris
Josephine Bartlett
Johnny Green


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