Last night at Southwark Cathedral Alice Loxton was a winner of The Somerset Maugham Awards for ELEANOR: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen!

Eleanor was published in November by Macmillan, and was a Times bestseller as well as a Waterstones Best History Book of 2025

Judge Sandeep Parmar said Eleanor ‘fizzes with longing, ambition and humour. Every step and every word is handled with deftness that makes a long-lost history feel alive and newly relevant for modern times’.

Alice can be found on Instagram: @history_alice.