Us folk up North are rather lucky really. Art galleries, markets, an abundance of niche little bars and restaurants and, reopening in Spring 2014 , the new, improved, refurbished central library. A comfortable, inspiring, modern setting for many a bookish musing is on the cards, a veritable ‘living room‘ for the city centre. However, these wild promises aside, don’t us Mancunians deserve somewhere decent to pick up our books in the meantime?

For a while we had a pretty little temporary ‘city library’ up on Deansgate that was great to nip in for a quick peruse/use of the computers however, this has since been shut up and been replaced by what can only be described as a poor excuse for a temporary measure, however good a glimpse it gives us of what to expect when the big boy opens up next year.

Oo fancy.

This is all very…