A dark night on Canal Street

A dark night on Canal 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 boyfriend has become an erotonaut, and middle-aged men make pancakes in the nude. This is Manchester's Canal Street as you've never seen it before – probably.
 
Canal Street Gothic, described by reviewers as "very nothern, very gay", is being published to raise funds for the Albert Kennedy Trust.
 
Reviewers say the ten stories set in and around Manchester's gay village are: " very northern, very gay, touching and funny in equal measure." (GScene Magazine, Brighton).
 
The book, which is on sale online and local bookshops, has been penned by Manchester Evening News writer David Thame.
 
The publication marks the 21st of Albert Kennedy Trust and the 21st anniversary for Manchester's Gay Village, the first in the UK, which began to take its modern shape in 1990 with the opening of Manto bar at Canal Street.
 
Canal Street Gothic, costs £7.99 and can be bought direct from the publishers, www.pinkewe.co.uk or from local bookshops - Cornerhouse, Chorlton Bookshop - or any of the online stores: Amazon, Waterstones, W.H. Smith and Book Depository, (ISBN 978-09569345-0-3) An e-book Kindle edition is also available (ISBN 978-0-9569354-1-0).

http://www.akt.org.uk/pub-train-svs/news/canal-street-gothic.html

Published: 12-Oct-2011: (842)