Autumn is the season Manchester was made for. The morning commute into the city is everyday brightened by hues more auburn than urban. Don’t you think the copper leaves compliment perfectly the red brick of our lovely city (for a closer look of which, please do check out  The Skyliner)?  Even the suburbs, snaked with the Bridgewater Canal look invitingly Hardy-esque.

Gush rush over; here at 503 we are realists and anticipate that many a day of the pre-festive season will be dark, damp and drab. So what’s on offer in the great indoors this October to warm our cockles?

Well into its second phase this week is the Manchester Literature Festival. Our highlight from last week was certainly joining Sally Wainwright (At Home with the Braithewaites, Unforgiven and of course Coronation Street) in conversation with BBC Writers Room and Salford University. Treated to a…