The waiting is over. After seven months, hundreds of votes and hours of passionate debate in reading groups across the city, the fourth Manchester Book Award has been won by Sophie McKenzie's Six Steps To A Girl. Read more about the winner...
Read an extract from Crash
Exclusively for the Manchester Book Award web site, you can read an extract of Crash by J. A. Henderson.
It's not just about getting a book out for a school project. It's about books you can really get your teeth into. Stuff that takes you to amazing places. Behind the library doors, there's a world of glamour, of danger, of weird...
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