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Country Bookshop Local Book of the Year Award
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The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and her secretary, Helen Marchant, outside the Old Rectory in Edensor Village
after receiving the award for the Country Bookshop local book of the year.
The organizers of the Peak Festival / directors of Country Bookshop, Hassop Station, presented the award for
the book, Memories of Andrew Devonshire by Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire on Tuesday. Each year,
the Country Bookshop organizes an award for their local book of the year. The winner is chosen by local residents,
who first make a shortlist of five books from which the winner is then decided. The book was chosen this year by
Elaine Blair from Froggatt and Mary Ellsworth (a Country Bookshop book club member) from Calver. The prize was a
photograph on canvas of a Dale Chihuli blown glass sculpture taken in front of the lake at Chatsworth on the last
day of the Sotherby's exhibition in 2006.
The Dowager Duchess could not attend the presentation in December because of other commitments and so Lyndsey
Porter, the publisher of the book from Landmark Publishing Ltd., accepted the award on her behalf. The award in
December was kindly presented by the popular Yorkshire author Gervase Phinn.
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