Books

Three amazing books, beautifully illustrated, the perfect gifts for those who love Manchester, are new to the city, want to learn about it in-depth while being entertained or just would like an attractive souvenir.

Books

Three amazing books, beautifully illustrated, the perfect gifts for those who love Manchester, are new to the city, want to learn about it in-depth while being entertained or just would like an attractive souvenir.

Books

Three amazing books, beautifully illustrated, the perfect gifts for those who love Manchester, are new to the city, want to learn about it in-depth while being entertained or just would like an attractive souvenir.

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Manchester
The Complete Guide

£11.99

Manchester: the Complete Guide to the City, is the most authoritative guide to the city for visitors or residents. It has become the bestselling guidebook to Manchester in the city’s history and has been thoroughly updated and revised. This new edition has almost 100 additional pages.

The book looks at Manchester’s past, present and future, it describes the main monuments, museums and galleries while also providing full information on where to stay, eat, drink, dance, watch sport or shop. There are several walking itineraries, including new ones, and recommendations for excursions. Biographies of key citizens and episodes in Manchester’s lively history are revealed, again in an extended section.

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Lost & Imagined Manchester

£11.99

This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of more than fifty lost and imagined buildings and projects in Manchester. It includes some of the grandest buildings and plans ever dreamt up in the UK but also more modest buildings that go to the heart of city life. Expect cathedrals, castles, palaces, pubs, race courses, skyscrapers, stadiums and even the apocalypse. There are surprises throughout complete with a lively and witty text. The book provides fascination and interest as standard.

The author is Jonathan Schofield, a well-known Manchester guide, writer and broadcaster.

This is the first of the Lost & Imagined series about UK cities.

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Illusion & Change Manchester

£11.99

Illusion & Change Manchester, the latest book by Jonathan Schofield, the acclaimed Manchester author, guide and broadcaster, is available now.

Beneath and behind the city we walk through is a past, present and future city. This book takes a trip into this metaphysical other place, conjuring pictures of things that might have been, things that were and things that could be.

There are more than fifty buildings and schemes covered in the book. Some made international news such as the rebuild after the IRA bomb in 1996. Others were sensations such as when Picasso’s Guernica appeared in a Manchester garage in 1939. There are halls, sculptures, commercial buildings, churches, shops, underground canals, bridges, theatres, views, valleys, cliffs and the story of the changing skyline.

Illusion and Change is the sister of Lost & Imagined Manchester which came out in November 2015 and is being reprinted after becoming Waterstones best-selling Manchester book and selling out in seven months.

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