James Meek's PRIVATE ISLAND wins Orwell Prize for books 2015

Congratulations to James Meek, who has been awarded the Orwell Prize for books 2015 for PRIVATE ISLAND, his study of how the growth of privatisation has affected the UK.

Chair of judges Gillian Slovo said: 'He has not written a polemic or an ideological tract, but a careful and elegant exploration of what exactly privatisation has produced in our country. It more than passed the Orwell test of political writing as art, and for this the judges were unanimous in choosing it as the winner.'