Lancashire Book of the Year winners

2023 winner

The winner of Lancashire Book of the Year 2023 was, for the second consecutive year, Cynthia Murphy, for her book "Win Lose Kill Die".

Cynthia becomes the first female author to win the award twice, and the first author to win the award twice in row!

The winning book, Win Lose Kill Die, tells the story of students at Morton Academy, a school which selects based on academic excellence. When a series of murders target the school's brightest and best, the pressure is on to uncover the truth and stop the killer.

After receiving her prize at an awards ceremony at UCLAN, Cynthia said:

"Thank you so much for voting Win Lose Kill Die to be Lancashire Book of The Year 2023. It means the absolute world. This is extra special because I grew up in Bury and think of myself as a Lancashire lass. Getting your little weird ideas out into the world is quite an unusual thing so the fact that so many people resonate with it is just wonderful."

Previous winners

The first winner, when the Lancashire Book of the Year launched in 1987, was Philip Pullman, who went on to have great success with the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Other winning authors include Malorie Blackman, Anthony Horowitz and Sarah Crossan.

You can see a list of all previous Lancashire Book of the Year winners on Wikipedia.