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Pride
Of Manchester Award 2009-10 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 result being... |
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WINNER
~ Manchester: Looking for the Light Through
the Pouring Rain ~ |
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In an incredibly close result, legendary Mancunian
photographer Kevin Cummins'
truly beautiful collection won 15% of the vote,
just 0.3% more than the second place book. |
| 'Looking
For The Light Through The Pouring Rain' 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. |
| Whether
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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