- 1st Edition - Published by Limited Edition Press, 2005.
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- ISBN 1 859 88 064 9
- Available in paperback.
- £29.99 inclusive of FREE p&p by return post (from the UK) for an autographed copy complete with generic bookmark - if you mention Bill's website www.novelnovella.com
- Cheques should be made payable to Bill Keeth.
- 2nd Edition - Published by Limited Edition Press, 2006.
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- ISBN 1 1 859 88 065 7
- Available in paperback.
- £14.99 inclusive of FREE p&p by return post (from the UK) for an autographed copy complete with generic bookmark - if you mention Bill's website www.novelnovella.com
- Cheques should be made payable to Bill Keeth.
Every Street in Manchester is the personal testament of Manchester man Tony Dinch who relates his tale in a Mancunian vernacular that treads a linguistic tightrope strung, as it were, between the Pennine watershed and the roof of the Liver Building. He’s assisted in this undertaking by Byron Marlfield, business entrepreneur and bibliophile, who undertakes to act as Dinchy’s editor in addition to contributing a substantial part of the narrative.
Narrated, as it is, with all the energy and pace of a rumbustious two-reeler, its storyline punctuated by a classic rock repertoire – Every Street in Manchester is a comic tour de force spanning the second half of the twentieth century in a northern suburb of the city.
Consider Dinchy at work, if you will (he is successively, though none too successfully, a navvy, delivery driver, marketman, cabbie, and postman), or Dinchy at play (in the Embassy Club with Shirlee, in a football melee with the lads, on the Pennine Way with Byron, in the parish procession with his dad) and you’ll realise soon enough he’s a perennial disaster area just looking for somewhere to happen.
Witness his wedding reception where the guests bring the roof down, or daughter Suzanne’s christening party where a gatecrasher upchucks on the buffet!
Still, Dinchy’s heart’s in the right place, you’ll find. Hey, so’s the boy’s head too. There it is – on top of his shoulders where you’d expect it to be. Oh, it’s a bit on the slow side, admittedly; so it’s probably just as well he’s got Byron to cover for him – and a good woman too. Correction: Dinchy had a good woman; Dinchy had Shirlee once upon a time.
So isn’t it all just a case of once upon a time?
Well, maybe so – but, there again, maybe not. Because it all depends on how you look at things and what you believe in. Take Dinchy, for example: Dinchy doesn’t know too much, that’s for sure. But what he does know is plenty big enough for him.