‘Every Street in Manchester will be a welcome addition to the bedside cabinet of every insomniac in the land . . . had this reviewer pushing up the zeds for Merrie England ’

‘For my money Every Street in Manchester is a Buy that’s a long-term Hold’

‘Every Street in Manchester? Why? Where’s Manchester for a start?’

‘Every Street in Manchester is irresistible! Before I knew where I was I’d purloined a copy from Waterstone’s and was hightailing it to the Hidden Gem on Mulberry Street where I made a firm purpose of amendment to daub the action-painted Stations of the Cross with black bitumastic paint the better to preserve them for posterity whilst this mood of gay abandon was still upon me’

‘In my considered opinion Every Street in Manchester is crap’

‘I was in seventh heaven with Every Street in Manchester –well, the Olde Boar’s Head at any rate, counting seven pubs northwards from Middleton Arndale Centre. Cloud Nine was achieved with the realisation that the autographed copy mein host had affixed to the toilet wall was a freebie I could avail myself of a page at a time or devour at one sitting’

‘Every Street in Manchester, by Bill Keeth, out of Manchester 9, and from the same stable as last season’s winner, Our Kid, should be a dead cert to romp home ahead of the rest of the field in this year’s Grand Notional Manpudlian Handicap Hurdle’