Cull & Co authors have been recognised by many of the publishing and media industry’s most respected awards, including the Nero Book Awards, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, the British Guild of Travel Writers Awards, the CWA Daggers, and numerous journalism prizes.

Highlights

Shafik Meghji

  • Winner – British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025
    Small Earthquakes
  • Shortlisted – Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2026
    Small Earthquakes
  • Shortlisted – Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2023
    Crossed Off the Map
  • Shortlisted – BGTW Members’ Excellence Awards 2024
    UK Travel Feature of the Year; Sustainability Feature of the Year

George Harrison

  • Shortlisted for Best Debut Novel – Nero Book Awards
    Season

Mary Novakovich

  • Winner – Golden Pen Awards 2026 Grand Prix for Best Print Reportage
    For the Daily Mail article “Your Ultimate Guide to Croatia”
  • Shortlisted – Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2023
    My Family and Other Enemies

Daniel Stables

  • Winner – Inspire Global Media Awards 2026
    For his National Geographic Traveller feature on Sicily

Tim Bird

  • Selected – Stanfords Non-Fiction Book of the Month (January 2026)
    Happy Land: Finding My Inner Finn

C. J. Schüler

  • Shortlisted – Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2021
    Along the Amber Route
  • Longlisted – Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2021
    Along the Amber Route
  • Shortlisted – Bookmark Book Festival Book of the Year 2020
    Along the Amber Route

Tim Hain

  • Shortlisted – The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2020, Best Illustrated Sports Book of the Year
    Lap of Honour

Seth Thévoz

  • Shortlisted – Whitfield Prize 2019, Club Government
  • Shortlisted – British Journalism Award, Best Investigation 2020, with openDemocracy colleagues
  • Winner – Dame Jinty Nelson Prize in History, dissertation work

Rachel Lichtenstein

  • Shortlisted – Ondaatje Prize, On Brick Lane
  • Longlisted – Gordon Burn Prize, Estuary

Kevin Bartlett

  • Shortlisted – CWA Debut Dagger 2022
    Henry’s Bomb
    Later published as / developed into Timebomb.

Liz Rachel Walker

  • Highly Commended / Runner-up – CWA Debut Dagger 2022
    The Dieppe Letters

Michael Smith

  • Longlisted – CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2023
    The Real Special Relationship

Karina Urbach

  • Winner – Crime Cologne Award 2018
    Cambridge 5: Zeit der Verräter
    Published under the pseudonym Hannah Coler.