The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are – by some acounts – Britain’s most prestigious literary awards. Its list of winners is long and impressive. “Yet outside the world of the highbrow literary cognoscenti, few have heard of the awards, despite the fact that they are the UK’s oldest and, many would argue, most prestigious. Now one man armed with a grand vision and a plan to increase the prize money fivefold is aiming to take them out of the shadows.”