Manchester, on paper and on record
Every order leaves from Manchester, so here are two very different portraits of the city.
Everything we sell is packed and sent from Manchester, so it seemed right to recommend a book and a record about the place.
On paper: North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell lived in Manchester, and North and South is set in Milton, a mill town based closely on it. It is a love story, but it is also about the city's noise, its work and its arguments about fairness.
On record: Unknown Pleasures
More than a century later, Unknown Pleasures captured a very different Manchester: quieter, emptier, late at night. It is one of the records people mean when they talk about the sound of the city.
Same streets, a hundred and twenty years apart.
Read one, then play the other.
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