Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe, by Ian Collins, has won the 2025 New Angle Prize for Literature.

The judges said: 'Ian Collins moved us with the obvious affection that he has for Ronald Blythe. It is a work that is rich, insightful in its research, which gives a comprehensive but totally fascinating and amusing account of his life and the social history of the region he loved.'

The biennial New Angle prize is awarded to a book in any genre published in the previous two years and set in, or influenced by, the region of East Anglia.