Andy Spinoza moved to Manchester from London at eighteen and never looked back. He co-founded City Life magazine in 1983 and from 1988 spent ten years reporting for the Manchester Evening News. He ran a PR agency for twenty-five years before writing Manchester unspun (2022), a chronicle of the city's extraordinary renaissance. Often described as an adopted Mancunian, he is also happy to be called a 'Mancockneyan'. He lives in Stockport with his wife, Lynne.