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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