The Portico Prize 2010
Entries

Samuel J.M.M. Alberti Nature & Culture; objects, disciplines & the Manchester Museum
George Peter Algar The Shepherd Lord
Rosie Alison The Very Thought of You
Judith Allnatt The Poet's Wife
Lyn Andrews A Secret in the Family
Simon Armitage Seeing Stars
Elizabeth Baines Too Many Magpies
Anne Baker All That Glistens
Anne Baker Through Rose-Coloured Glasses
Joan Bakewell All the Nice Girls
Rajeev Balasubramanyam The Dreamer
Nicola Barker Burley Cross Postbox Theft
Bob Beagrie The Seer Sung Husband
Tony Bianchi Bumping
Stephen Bull 'A General Plague of Mandess' The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660
Madeleine Bunting The PLot; a Biography of my Father's English Acre
Melvin Burgess Nicholas Dane
Ian Clayton Our Billie
Stephen Clayton The Art of Being Dead
Eleanor Conlin Casella The Alderley Sandhills Project
Alexandra Connor The Jeweller's Niece
John Connor Unsafe
Kevin Cummins Manchester: Looking for the Light Through the Pouring Rain
Andrew Davies The Gangs of Manchester
Brindley Hallam Dennis That's What Ya Get!
Simon Faithfull Liverpool-to-Liverpool
Alex Ferguson Uncle Freddie & The Prince of Wales
Brad Friedel Thinking Outside the Box
Robert Graham The Only Living Boy
Nina Green Memories of a Moon Map
Malcolm Greenhalgh The River Ribble: A Local and Natural History
Niall Griffiths Real Liverpool
Sheryllyne Haggerty The Empire in One City: Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past
Matt Haig The Radleys
Sarah Hall How to Paint a Dead Man
Mike Harding Strange Lights over Bexleyheath
Richard Hardwick Kicked Out
Lance Hardy Stokoe, Sunderland & '73
Joanne Harris BlueEyedBoy
William Hartley An Oldham Velvet Dynasty
David Hey Derbyshire: A History
Reginald Hill Midnight Fugue
Reginald Hill The Woodcutter
Peter Hook The Hacienda; How Not To Run A Club
Billy Hopkins Tommy's World
Trevor Hoyle Down the Figure 7
Glyn Hughes Life Class
Tristram Hunt The Frock-Coated Communist
M.J. Hyland This Is How
Erica James The Queen of New Beginnings
Angela V. John Evelyn Sharp; Rebel Woman, 1869-1955
Denis Judd The Private Diaries of Alison Uttley
Frances Kay Micka
Bill Keeth Four Years to Life
Tom Kelly Somewhere in Heaven
Chris Killen The Bird Room
Joanne Klein Invisible Men; The Secret Lives of Police Constables
Valerie Laws The Rotting Spot
Maureen Lee Martha's Journey
Marion Leonard & R. Strachan The Beat Goes On
Ann Lingard The Embalmer's Book of Recipes
Elizabeth Love Kaleidoscope
Ewan MacColl Journeyman; an autobiography
Jack Maddox In The Shelter of Each Other
Andrew Martin Last Train to Scarborough
Rob McKeever On The Right Track
Jude Morgan A Taste of Sorrow
Steve Mosby Still Bleeding
John Murray The Legend of Liz & Joe
James Nice Shadowplayers; The Rise & Fall of Factory Records
David Nobbs Obstacles to Young Love
Mike Pannett Not On My Patch, Lad
Iain Parke & M. Robertson Heavy Duty People
Graham Pears The Myth of Justice
Harry Pearson Slipless in Settle; a Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket
Jacob Polley Talk of The Town
Colin Pooley & S. Pooley The Diary of Elizabeth Lee
John Robb The North Will Rise Again
Peter Robinson Bad Boy
Bill Rogers The Cleansing
Bill Rogers The Tiger's Cave
Bill Rogers A Fatal Intervention
Bill Rogers The Head Case
Christopher Routledge Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint
Alan Scarth Titanic & Liverpool
John Siddique Recital
Chris Simms The Edge
Dave Simpson The Fallen
Caroline Smailes Black Boxes
Cath Staincliffe The Kindest Thing
Wendy Stuart Lakeland in the 1830s
Amanda Taylor The Chinaman's Bastard
Ian Thompson The English Lakes
George Timmons Safe Haven
Joanna Trollope The Other Family
Sid Waddell Road Back Home
Chris Wadsworth Hercules & the Farmers Wife
Martin Wainwright True North
Elon Whittaker Annabel
Tony Williams The Corner of Arundel Lane & Charles Street
Christopher Winn I Never Knew That About the Lake District
Christopher Winn I Never Knew That About Yorkshire
Steve Wood The Angels of Mona Terrace

 

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