A regular look at new books on MANCHESTER, and its districts, available in Manchester Libraries.
Matt Cain’s new novel One Love is set in the Manchester Gay Village. You might also be interested in similar novels set there:
Nicholas Blincoe Manchester Slingback (1998) – a murder story
Sam Helio Gay Village Secrets (2022) – various characters’ lives
Other fiction to highlight is Zahid Hussain’s Curry Mile Book 2, (Book1 was published back in 2006). It tells the story of a family and its restaurant business and a Book 3 is promised. Cath Staincliffe, perhaps more familiar as a crime writer, has gone in a different direction in recent times. Her latest novel The Lost Girls of St Anns is set in the 1960s and features unmarried mothers and adoption.
Moving on from fiction another newish title is The Sikh Community of Manchester by Sarup Singh Landa (for other books on the various communities of Manchester see our website and don’t forget Race Relations Resource Centre which is based in Central Library).
Finally a couple of more specialist titles are worth a mention. Countess Ossalinsky and the Thirlemere Dam by Ian Hall is story of May Jackson, the Countess, who fought against (ultimately failing) Manchester Corporation’s plans to turn the dale she loved into Thirlmere Dam, whilst Lawrence Gregory’s A History of St Bede’s College (2 vols) is the story of the Catholic College (now a school) in Whalley Range up to 1950.