Hooray, huzzah and yippee - LeafSalon extends its heartiest and most excitable congratulations to Lloyd Jones, whose wonderful book Mister Pip has just been announced as the overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Lloyd is in Jamaica where the £10,000 award was handed over on last night. You can see a picture of him with some of the other regional winners (rather scratchy I'm afraid) in the Jamaica Gleaner, here.

Lloyd will also of course be heading to London in July (on his way to take up his residency in Berlin) – as the Best Book winner he is invited for an audience with The Queen. Blimey eh?