Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award 2010 winner

Too Much Trouble by Tom Avery has won the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award 2010. The Award was founded jointly by Frances Lincoln Limited and Seven Stories, in memory of Frances Lincoln (1945-2001) to encourage and promote diversity in children's fiction. The prize of GBP1,500 plus the option for Janetta Otter-Barry at Frances Lincoln Children's Books to publish the novel is awarded to the best manuscript for 8 to 12-year-olds that celebrates diversity in the widest possible sense