Westlife's album Coast Coast is the reason why, close to 48 years after the Beatles' released their first single, Love Me Do, we need the Fab Four as much as ever.

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Comedian Shappi Khorsandi, part of a judging panel that includes last year's winner Philip Ardagh and awards founder Michael Rosen, said the quality of books "reminded me how I came to love reading in the first place".

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"The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music, " he recalled in Dirty Linen magazine in 1995.

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