WARRINGTON has launched its own literary award – and local people are the judges.
The Warrington Winner of Winners book awards gives people a chance to vote for the best book of the year from a list of award winning titles across a range of genres, for all age groups.
Most books on the list have already won a prestigious literary award and there is at least one book in each of the four categories – early reading, children, teens and adults – with a local connection to Warrington.
The full list of books is:
Early years: Frankenstein’s Cat by Curtis Jobling; Little Mouse’s Book of Big Fears by Emily Gravett; Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett; Penguin by Polly Dunbar; Tucking In by Jess Stockham; When a Monster is Born by Sean Taylor and Nick Sharratt.
Children: Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon; Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddle; The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S.F.Said; Shadow Forest by Matt Haig; We Are Poets by Helen Thomas.
Teens: Beast by Ally Kennen; The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley; Breathe by Cliff McNish; Divine Madness by Richard Muchamore; Girl Missing by Sophie McKenzie; Here Lies Arthur by Phillip Reeve; My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedwick; Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons; Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy;
Paralysed by Sherry Ashworth.
Adult: 31 Dream Street by Lisa Jewell; Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards; Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell; Broken Shore by Peter Temple; Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu; Day by A.L.Kennedy; De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage; The Gathering by Anne Enright; Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran; Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman; The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards; Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; My Booky Wook by Russell Brand; On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan; Once Upon a Time in England by Helen Walsh; Pillow Talk by Freya North; Provided You Don’t Kiss Me by Duncan Hamilton; Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge; The Road Home by Rose Tremain; Six Degrees by Mark Lynas; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; Tilt by Jean Sprackland; Too Much, Too Young by Kerry Katona; Unblemished by Conrad Williams; Warrington for ever – a portrait of the town and its people by Alan Crosby and Janice Hayes; What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn; Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
All the books are available to borrow from local libraries for free and can even be reserved at www.warrington.gov.uk/eps
Town launches literary competition
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Experienced journalist for more than 40 years. Managing Director of magazine publishing group with three in-house titles and on-line daily newspaper for Warrington. Experienced writer, photographer, PR consultant and media expert having written for local, regional and national newspapers. Specialties: PR, media, social networking, photographer, networking, advertising, sales, media crisis management. Chair of Warrington Healthwatch Director Warrington Chamber of Commerce Patron Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. Trustee Warrington Disability Partnership. Former Chairman of Warrington Town FC.
