The Time Out Manchester Shortlist guide book

Time Out Manchester Shortlist So I managed to get my hands on a copy of Time Out’s new Manchester Shortlist guide. It’s a 200-page, 4×6.5 paperback, to be published on 5 April. Retail price is �6.99 but Amazon is already listing it for �5.59.

It’s a great product and a refreshingly detailed read. The three ‘itinerary’ features - Manchester: A Secret History, Manchester in… one hour/an afternoon/24 hours, and a Manchester Music Tour - are particularly interesting.

I’ve noticed a couple of typos (inevitable in a book of this size) and a tiny editorial faux pas: the Shopping section, edited by Rags To Bitches‘ Flic Everett, features - you guessed it - Rags To Bitches as its main image. Minor points, really.

Elsewhere, Arts & Leisure Editor Susie Stubbs is formerly of All Saints No Sinners magazine and Sights & Museums Editor Rob Haynes may or may not be Goldblade’s drummer. As predicted, the production team and even Editorial Director Ruth Jarvis are based in London.

I hear Time Out thinks the Shortlist has a shelflife of two years, though they expect to be reissuing it in 12 months. Have a read and let me know what you think.

4 Comments so far

Thanks for your comments on the Shortlist guidebook and glad it’s passed the Mancubuist test! Just a note: though the production team is in London (as for all Time Out books), all the writers and researchers for this version were, like me, ‘on the ground’, ie. based in Manchester. It’s impossible to cover everything and get everything 100% right but I hope we’ve managed to capture something of the essence of this much-loved (and slightly damp) city of ours. Thanks again for the mention (and of ASNS, and of Transmission mag!).

Even cheaper on Time Out website: Â£5.23 delivered!

Hi,
I get your point about Rags to Bitches and how it must seem. I did a lot of the photos for the book and Flic did do the shopping guide. However, the decision to choose our image as a lead for the section had nothing to do with us and, indeed it was surprise to us when we saw it. We already had taken an ad in the book and would have been more than happy with that.
We didn’t even need to bribe them with cakes…

Thanks for the comment Simon. As I said, it was a minor point and I know first-hand how easy it is for something like that to happen. And Flic’s editorial mention of RTB is very brief, I noticed.

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