Review
This collection of ten new stories celebrates all that's great, musty, odd, sexy, fun, silly, gothic and scary about this ... Manchester Street. The stories are short personal glimpses into the lives of the street ... It's very northern, very gay, touching and funny. --Gscene Magazine, Brighton's LGBT monthly 24 September 2011
A collection of ten short and sweet stories based on Manchester's legendary gay village....quirky, cheeky. --Gay Times, November 2011
"These are stories with great tenderness and control.....which hide their profundity with modesty and skill." Author and blogger Paul Magrs February 2012 --http://paulmagrs.com/blogs/?p=2142
Product Description
Ten tales from the Street
A journalist has a stroke (and not in a nice way); a soap star plays at playing pool; a social worker wonders why his partner has become an erotonaut, and middle-aged men make pancakes in the nude. Manchester's Canal Street as you've never seen it before - probably.
Canal Street Gothic, a collection of ten strange tales of love set in and around Manchester's gay village reveals the gothic truths beneath the shiny surfaces of the twenty-first century city.
Royalties from this edition go to the Albert Kennedy Trust (akt.org.uk). The Trust was founded in Manchester in 1990 following the death near Canal Street of Albert Kennedy (1973-1989). The Trust supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans homeless young people. Registered Charity No. 1093815