Foyles Best Book of Ideas Prize

Foyles is delighted to be the new sponsor of the Best Book of Ideas Prize at the annual Bristol Festival of Ideas.

Backed by Arts Council England, Bristol City Council and Bristol's business community, the Bristol Festival of Ideas has been running 2006 and is attended by tens of thousands of festival-goers and features many of the world's best-known writers, scientists, thinkers and artists, with over 150 events organised annually, around half of them in May and many hosted by Foyles at our Cabot Circus branch.

There is a concentrated period of at least 70 events in May and other events throughout the year. The festival has financial backing from Arts Council England, Bristol City Council and Bristol's business community. The winner receives a prize of £5000.

On 20th May, Artful by Ali Smith was announced as the 2013 winner.

2013 Shortlist

Foyalty36 You Can't Read This Book: Censorship... (Paperback) Nick Cohen   The author of Flat Earth News argues that our 'culture of outrage' is putting freedom of speech under serious threat. Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. £9.09 30% Despatched in 1 business day. Add to Basket Click & Collect: Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. £11.04 15% In stock in 1 or more stores. Buy - Select Store New & Used: Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. £6.24   In stock at one or more sellers. Buy - Select Seller	Foyalty43 Pieces of Light: The New Science of... (Hardback) Charles Fernyhough   Memory is an essential part of who we are. But what is a memory, and how do we remember? A new consensus is emerging among scientists: rather than possessing a... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. £10.94 27% Despatched in 1 business day. Add to Basket Click & Collect: Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. £12.74 15% In stock in 1 or more stores. Buy - Select Store New & Used: Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info.     Currently unavailable Currently unavailable
Foyalty26 Get Real: How to See Through the ... (Paperback) Eliane Glaser   It's time to radically alter the way we perceive the world. It's time to get real. Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. £6.56 27% Despatched in 1 business day. Add to Basket Click & Collect: Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. £7.64 15% In stock in 1 or more stores. Buy - Select Store New & Used: Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info.     Currently unavailable Currently unavailable	Foyalty40 Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies ... (Paperback) Ben Goldacre   'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. £10.21 27% Despatched in 1 business day. Add to Basket Click & Collect: Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. £11.89 15% In stock in 1 or more stores. Buy - Select Store New & Used: Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info.     Currently unavailable Currently unavailable
Foyalty56 The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardback) Robert Macfarlane   Written by a nature writer who was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012, this title offers an exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. £14.00 30% Despatched in 1 business day. Add to Basket Click & Collect: Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. £17.00 15% In stock in 1 or more stores. Buy - Select Store New & Used: Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info.     Currently unavailable Currently unavailable	Foyalty58 Artful (Hardback) Ali Smith   Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, this title is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. £14.60 27% Despatched in 2 business days. Add to Basket Click & Collect: Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. £17.00 15% In stock in 1 or more stores. Buy - Select Store New & Used: Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info.     Currently unavailable Currently unavailable

Previous winners

2012 Edgelands by Michael Symmons Robert & Paul Farley

2011 The Return of the Public by Dan Hind

2010 The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson

2009 Flat Earth News by Nick Davies