Take your pick from Jeff Noon, Anthony Burgess, Nicholas Blincoe, Howard Jacobson. And for the suburbs (especially Stockport) Stevie Davies and Richard Francis. And don’t forget Mrs Gaskell and Howard Spring, whose Fame Is The Spur may not be great art but it begins in Manchester with the Peterloo massacre and keeps going at a gallop.

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