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Winners and runners-up from previous years

Here’s the details of the books and prize winners from the first three years of the Manchester Book Award.

The Manchester Book Award is now in its FOURTH year, with another twenty-four fantastic books entered into the 2009 award.

On this page you can find out more about the books entered into the 2006, 2007 and 2008 awards, and the competition prize winners from our previous years.

2006 award

Winner

Finalists

  • Stuff by Jeremy Strong
  • Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
  • The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delany
  • Jimmy Coates: Killer by Joe Craig
  • Roxy's Baby by Catherine MacPhail
  • Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah

Runners-up

  • Bloodline by Kevin Brooks
  • Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean by Justin Somper
  • Silverfin by Charlie Higson
  • The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
  • Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
  • Indigo Blue by Cathy Cassidy
  • The Hunted by Alex Shearer
  • Ten Days to Zero by Bernard Ashley
  • The Unrivalled Spangles by Karen Wallace
  • Jacob's Ladder by Brian Keaney
  • The Diary of Pelly-D by L J Adlington
  • Candy by Kevin Brooks
  • Branded by Robert Swindells
  • Paralysed by Sherry Ashworth
  • The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn
  • The Fearful by Keith Gray
  • Skarrs by Catherine Forde
  • Divided City by Theresa Breslin

2006 competition winners

2007 award

Introduction to the Award Ceremony

See the video of the introduction, from the award ceremony

Winner

See the video of the finalist, from the award ceremony

Finalists

  • Ingo by Helen Dunmore
  • The Drowning Pond by Catherine Forde
  • Hold On by Alan Gibbons
  • Until Proven Guilty by Nigel Hinton
  • Beast by Ally Kennen
  • The Innocent's Story by Nicky Singer

See the video of the 6 finalist, from the award ceremony

Runners-up

  • Clay by David Almond
  • Cloud World by David Cunningham
  • Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
  • Exchange by Paul Magrs
  • Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
  • Fur by Meg Harper
  • Heretic by Sarah Singleton
  • Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz
  • Sara's Face by Melvin Burgess
  • Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy
  • Seeker by William Nicholson
  • Smokescreen by Bernard Ashley
  • Tamar by Mal Peet
  • The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
  • The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
  • The Riddles of Epsilon by Christine Morton-Shaw
  • Thieves Like Us by Stephen Cole
  • Tins by Alex Shearer

2007 competition winners

2008 award

Winner

Finalists

  • Being by Kevin Brooks
  • Berserk by Ally Kennen
  • The Devil's Breath: Danger Zone by David Gilman
  • Do The Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce
  • Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
  • Nemesis by Catherine MacPhail

Runners-up

  • Angel by Cliff McNish
  • Darkside by Tom Becker
  • Dirty Work by Julia Bell
  • Fight Game by K Wild
  • Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
  • Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
  • Kill Swap by James Lovegrove
  • Kiss of Death by Malcolm Rose
  • My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
  • Waves by Sharon Dogar
  • Twin Freaks by Paul Magrs
  • Tug of War by Catherine Forde
  • Sundae Girl by Cathy Cassidy
  • The Spellgrinder's Apprentice by N M Browne
  • Sebastian Darke by Philip Caveney
  • Roundabout by Rhiannon Lassiter
  • The Rope Ladder by Nigel Richardson
  • Red Fox Running by Robin Lloyd Jones

2008 competition winners

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