Scarborough author has three books shortlisted in Global Literary Book Awards finals

Jamie Kershaw entered three different categories of the awards and was thrilled to discover that all of them were shortlisted:

Plan 103f 3rd Edition (Young Adult Fiction)

Brain of an Angel (Young Adult Non-fiction)

Hurricane to a Rainbow (Mental health Research)

Sarah May Tulip is also officially a Global Book Awards Finalist as co-author of Hurricane to a Rainbow.

About the books – Brain of an Angel: Short Works

A compilation of writing, inspired by lived experience, in recent times.

Opening with the Historical Accession of King Charles III, then modern poetry – some topical, others emotive, or comical – proceeding to capture England football team’s efforts in recent World and Euro Cups, with the Lionesses fighting all the way to being crowned 2022 & 2025 European Champions, and the Lions fighting to World and European finals.

Plan 103f: Eight characters. One life. Whose line was it anyway?

Set in Scarborough, London, Wales, and Scotland (2010-2012), this is a contemporary novel tracing the lives, relationships, trials and tribulations of “The Crew.”

The story ranges through Olympic sport, psychology, theology, popular philosophy, business enterprise, catering, new venture creation, current affairs, and other anecdotes thus brought to life.

Hurricane to a Rainbow

A book that took "four years of hard work” to write.

Jamie and Sarah give a much-needed insight into the mind of people with mental health experiences, covering anxiety, PTSD, BPD, autistic spectrum and schizophrenia in detail.

All three books are available on Amazon.

Jamie was brought up in the Ryedale villages of Beadlam/Nawton and has spent most of his life in Yorkshire and the north east, having lived and worked in Scarborough since 2007.

Also a keen amateur musician, he is also the recipient of two Society of Author’s Awards, in 2021 and 2022, and was offered a Rocaberti Writer’s Scholarship 2025.