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'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 12th year.
The Long List Launch Party will be at The Boogaloo, Highgate, London on the Monday 9th March 2025
The winner is announced at the Laugharne Weekend on Sunday 22nd March 2025
Penderyn Prize PR 2026
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2026 Long List - announced 23rd January 2026
Men of a Certain Age: My Encounters with Rock Royalty – Kate Mossman (White Rabbit)
The Drums - Mike Joyce (New Modern)
1975: The Year The World Forgot - Dylan Jones (Constable)
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk - Lally Macbeth (Faber & Faber)
The Absence: Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer – Budgie (White Rabbit)
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers - Keith Cameron (White Rabbit)
The Tremolo Diaries: Life on the Road and Other Diseases - Justin Currie (New Modern)
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop - Elizabeth Alker (Faber & Faber)
This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich - Daniel Rachel (White Rabbit)
The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the Partnership that Rocked the World -Peter Guralnick (White Rabbit)
Bread of Angels: a memoir - Patti Smith (Bloomsbury)
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs - Ian Leslie (Faber & Faber)
Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms - Arthur Baker (Faber & Faber)
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2026 Judges
Geoff Travis
Pete Wylie
Keith Allen
Josie Long
James Endeacott
Eliza Carthy
Pete Wylie
Keith Allen
Josie Long
James Endeacott
Eliza Carthy
Previous Winners
2025
Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence - Will Hodgkinson (Night Eight Books)
2024
Michael Cragg - Reach For The Stars ( Nine Eight Books)
2023
Bob Stanley - Let's Do It (Faber & Faber)
2022
Darryl W Bullock - The Velvet Maffia (Omnibus Press)
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)
2025
Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence - Will Hodgkinson (Night Eight Books)
2024
Michael Cragg - Reach For The Stars ( Nine Eight Books)
2023
Bob Stanley - Let's Do It (Faber & Faber)
2022
Darryl W Bullock - The Velvet Maffia (Omnibus Press)
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)
2026 Shortlist - announced ?? March 2026
Pics of the Penderyn Music Book Prize Ceremony
at the Laugharne Weekend
22nd March 2026
Video of the Penderyn Music Book Prize Ceremony
at the Laugharne Weekend
22nd March 2026
