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| Pride
Of Manchester Award for Best Manchester Book |
| This
year we've introduced a new award for the best
book with a local connection. This includes books
by Mancunian authors, novels set in Manchester,
Mancunian biographies and guides to Manchester
history, football, music or architecture. Highlights
from 2009 include Manchester crime novels 'Fever
Of The Bone' by Val McDermid, Sophie Hannah's
'The Other Half Lives', 'The Kindest Thing' by
Cath Staincliffe, 'The Edge' by Chris
Simms and Bill Rogers 'The Cleansing'.
Chris Evans, Peter Kay, Take That, Mark Radcliffe,
Mark E Smith, Peter Hook, Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins
and Mark Cavendish all released autobiographies,
whilst the scores of great football books included
'Manchester United The Biography' and 'The
Big Book Of City'. The bestsellers lists included
the screenplay of 'Looking For Eric', and
Stuart Maconie's 'Adventures On The High
Seas' whilst music fans would love 'Tony Wilson
- You're Entitled to an Opinion', 'Mozipedia
- The Encyclopedia Of Morrissey and The Smiths',
'Factory - The Story of the Record Label',
John Robb's 'The North Will Rise Again
- Manchester Music City' and Kevin Cummins
stunning visual record of the city and its pop
history . |
2,133
members nominated 43 different books with the
final shortlist (in alphabetical order) being... |
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Personal Pick Of 2009 |
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Adventures On The High Teas ~ |
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Described by Tony Wilson as "The English
Bill Bryson", Wigan writer Stuart
Maconie follows up his hilarious 2007
Bestselling look at Manchester and the North
of England, 'Pies and Prejudice - In Search
Of The North', with an equally funny travel
journo of Middle England. |
| In
this Sunday Times Bestseller he examines, in
his usual intelligent wit, just where and what
is Middle England? Is it all tradition and decency
or closed minds and bigotry? Maypoles and evensong,
or flooded market towns and binge drinkers?
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Jane Austen's Bath to Margaret Thatcher's Grantham,
the hilarious Wiganer leads an expedition by
rail and road, looking at the concept of Middle
England borne of Top Gear and Princess Diana.
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in Carnforth and Adelstrop, Scratchwood, Tebay
and Tunbridge Wells, The Cotswolds and Birmingham
(where he now lives) in search of Tom &
Barbara Good's Surbiton, John Betjeman and David
Brent's Slough, Elgar's Malverns and Inspector
Barnaby's Midsomer there's plenty of stop-offs
for tea and pastries along the way. |
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~
Looking For Eric ~ |
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Scriptwriter Paul Laverty has
collaborated with director Ken Loach on eight
films including this Cannes-nominated Mancunian
tale. |
| Eric,
a Mancunian postman, is slipping through his
own fingers... His chaotic family, his wild
stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front
garden don't help, but it is Eric s own secret
that drives him to the brink. Can he face the
woman he once loved thirty years ago? Despite
outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from
his fellow United supporting postman mates,
he continues to sink. In desperate times, he
smokes a spliff and his idol, Eric Cantona,
appears in an hallucination to offer him the
advice to help him regain control of his life. |
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book of the touching and hilarious film features
the full screenplay, including extra scenes,
sixteen pages of colour photographs, plus introductions
from Laverty, Loach and Eric Cantona himself.
There's also production notes from the cast
and crew, further adding an even more Mancunian
flavour to the publication. |
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Manchester: Looking for the Light Through
the Pouring Rain ~ |
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Legendary Mancunian photographer Kevin
Cummins' truly beautiful collection
captures the past 30 years of highs, lows and
transcendent pop moments of Manchester's most
famous musical icons, including Tony Wilson,
Joy Division, The Fall, Buzzcocks, New Order,
The Smiths, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Oasis.
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it be the backdrop of an unloved Arndale, a
rented room in Whalley Range, the rain-soaked
streets of Hulme, the historic bridges in Castlefield
or the dance floor of the Hacienda, the 250
exquisite photographs capture the anarchic energy
of the Manchester music scene and are all linked
together by wonderful first hand commentaries
from the musicians themselves as well as Paul
Morley, Stuart Maconie, Gavin Martin and John
Harris. But it is the pictures that tell their
own story. |
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~
You're Entitled to an Opinion ~ |
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Award-winning former Granada TV producer David
Nolan's third Manchester music biography
is arguably his best yet. As with 'Bernard Sumner
- Confusion' and 'I Swear I Was There - The
Gig That Changed The World', his investigation
into the life of Tony Wilson, the man they called
'Mr Manchester' draws on nearly 50 interviews
with musicians, DJs, writers, actors, family
and closest friends, including Yvette Livesey,
his partner of 17 years. |
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his unique childhood growing up with a gay father
and a domineering mother to his tragically early
death in 2007, this superb biography of the
Factory Records, Hacienda, In The City and Granada
TV maestro paints a picture of a unique, driven
and chaotic man, whose inspiration and influence
is still being felt today across the worlds
of music and TV. |
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