Gorsedh Kernow’s hard-working band of loyal reader reviewers has been keeping the organising committee busy with more than 200 reports submitted for the annual Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards, now in its 21st year.

’Although the number of entries is slightly down again this year, probably because books are now entered in one class rather than multiple classes, the quality of writing, illustrating and publishing, especially in the young adults category, is better than ever,’ said Holyer an Gof co-organiser Rael Harvey, whose bardic name is Myrgh Mydroilyn.

Holyer An Gof is promoted annually by Gorsedh Kernow for publications relating to Cornwall or the Cornish language.

The nominations for the 2017 Gorsedh Kernow Holyer an Gof are:

Cornish language books for teaching:

A Learners’ Cornish Dictionary in the Standard Written Form, edited by Steve Harris, published by Ors Sempel & An Kylgh Kernewek.

Taves an Tir Resource Pack for Schools, edited by Pat Parry, published by Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek.

Cornish language books for adults:

An Kevreyth Howlek by Rod Lyon, published by Kesva an Taves Kernewek.

Tenkys by Rod Lyon, published by Kesva an Taves Kernewek.

Books for children of primary age and books for young adults:

A Christmas in Cornwall  by Craig Green and Oliver Hurst, published by Mabecron Books.

The Fortune of the Seventh Stone by Petrus Ursem, self published by Gresham House Studios.

The Little Red Egg by Judy Scrimshaw, published by Granny Moff Books.

The Solstice Blade by Robert Beck, self published by Mandolin Press.

Adult Fiction:

A Cord of Three Strands by S J Haxton, published by Boswell Book Publishing.

Broken Dove by L A Kent, published by Willow Orchard Publishing.

Buried in the Country by Carole Dunn, published by Little Brown Book Group; Constable imprint.

What Everybody is Saying by Carla Vermaat, published by Carmichael Publishers.

Non Fiction – History, Language and Creative Arts:

A Fight for Life by Ingo Kuster, published by P & B Hawkey.

Cornish Solidarity: Using Culture to Strengthen Communities by Neil Kennedy, published by Evertype.

Cornwall’s First Golden Age by Bernard Deacon, published by Francis Boutle Publishers.

Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World by Marc Raboy, published by Oxford University Press.

Scryfer : Robert Victor Walling 1895-1976 – Bard and Journalist by Ann Trevenen Jenkin and Stephen Gadd, published by Gorsedh Kernow and Kesva an Taves Kernewek.

The Cornish in Latin America by Dr S P Schwartz, published by Cornubian Press.

Non Fiction – Marine, Industrial Heritage and Environment and Non Fiction in which illustrations predominate:

Cornwall’s Fuse Works 1831-1961 by Diane Hodnett, published by The Trevithick Society.

Sea Journal by Lisa Woollett, published by Zart Books.

Thorn’s of Bude by David Thorn and Stuart Thorn, published by Halsgrove.

Tommy Morrissey : Fisherman Painter by Gill Scott, published by Spur Valerian Press.

Booklets:

Changing Places: Porthcurno and the Roots of Modern Communication by Steve Bladon, Rosalyn Goulding and others, published by PK Trust.

Cornish Bards of Australia and New Zealand compiled by Gorsedh Kernow Archives and Publications, published by Gorsedh Kernow.

The Cornish History Notebook by Dee Harris, published by Ors Sempel & An Kylgh Kernewek.