Welcome to the André Simon Book Awards - the prestigious annual awards for food and drink books.

Once again we are accepting entries from publishers. Biography, science, travel and guidebooks are all welcome along with the more obvious books related to the ever lively world of food and drink.

The trustees appreciate how much work is put into the writing and publishing of these books. Every book is discussed and considered by the trustees and assessors.

We are delighted to be joined this year by Xanthe Clay as our food assessor. She writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and as an ex bookseller specialising in food and wine books she will be a great asset to our team. Assessing the drink books we are pleased to welcome David Gleave of Liberty Wines who as well his wide expertise on wines is also one of the UK's leading experts on Italian wines.

There is no fee involved with the awards. Publishers should just send a copy of each book to our trustees, the appropriate assessor and the secretary to the fund. All the details are on this website along with the entry form. If you have any questions please contact Katie Lander directly on katie@andresimon.co.uk. We are now on twitter so you can follow us there on @andresimon for all the updates on closing dates, shortlists and the winners.

We look forward to receiving your entries for 2011.