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Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.

The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.

He was awarded the £3,000 prize at by intelligence expert Nigel West, who chaired the judging panel.

West described the book as "a survey of how successive British governments have exercised censorship and stifled public discussion about the security and intelligence services. Altogether a very impressive, balanced study of what has become a veritable cottage industry of publications that attempt to lift Whitehall's veil of secrecy".

This year’s judging panel also included literary agent Andrew Lownie; historian Daniel J Mulvenna; British intelligence analyst; lecturer Glenmore Trenearn-Harvey; and author and screenwriter Michael Smith.