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John Fardell, Jonathan Meres and Barry Hutchison have been named as the winners of the 2012 SCOTTISH CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS, Scotland’s largest Children’s Book Prize which is voted for exclusively by children. The winners of the three age categories (who receive £3,000 each) were announced today during a special ceremony at Dundee’s Caird Hall, attended by 1,000 young people from all over Scotland.

Scottish Book Trust has unveiled the recipients of the New Writers Awards for 2013. There were more than 320 applicants and the winners are Graeme Burnett, Robert Currie, Brian Hamill, Sylvia Hehin, Lynsey May, Marion McCready, Lucy Ribchester, Catherine Simpson, Kathrine Sowerby, Samuel Tongue, and John Young.

Each recipient will receive a cash award of £2,000 and a bespoke professional development package, which can include nine months working with a mentor, networking opportunities with publishers and literary agents and a week-long writing retreat at Cove Park.

Success was sweet for Morag Jones (60) who found the fifth and final special book sculpture created to celebrate Book Week Scotland by the Mystery Sculptor. Morag has been on the hunt for sculptures all week and today she was successful, beating the largest crowd of treasure hunters yet to solve the riddle and discover the artwork inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island at the Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick at 14.39.

At 14:47 today, retired transport manager Stephen Ryan (60) found the fourth in a series of five book sculptures created to celebrate Book Week Scotland. The fourth sculpture was inspired by the J.M. Barrie classic, Peter Pan and was uncovered at his birthplace in Kirriemuir.

At 15:26 today the Isle of Eriskay discovered it has a group of budding Miss Marples and Inspector Morses when a class from Eriskay Primary School uncovered the third book sculpture inspired by Compton Mackenzie’s classic novel Whisky Galore.

Glasgow University student Jemma Dornan (20) was so disappointed to miss out on discovering the first Book Week Scotland sculpture yesterday she asked a friend to drive her to the village of Alloway today in her quest to be the first to find the second sculpture. It paid off when Jemma discovered the sculpture, based on Robert Burns’ famous poem Tam o’Shanter, at 14.28hrs in Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.