Rochdale Peter Ogden, novelist Nicholas Blincoe, Monica Coghlan, a prostitute caught up in the Jeffrey Archer scandal, and the banker Rev. Paul Flowers. Poet John Siddique was brought up in Rochdale and has referred to the town in several poems. Novelist Anna Jacobs was born in Rochdale. World Series of poker winner Jake Cody grew up in Rochdale. The footballer Earl Barrett was born there in April 1967 to Jamaican immigrant parents. Great Britain Olympian Craig Dawson, represented hometown club Rochdale and Bolton Wanderers at football. Rochdale Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South
This Was a Man (Jeffrey Archer) on "The New York Times" Bestseller List in late 2016. The Real Book Spy website really liked this book, saying, "There isn’t a better storyteller alive than Mr. Archer, and "This Was A Man" is his finest work to date." A book review by Stephanie Jones in "The Coast" website said "while Archer aficionados are likely to be sated, readers seeking a more engrossing and rewarding multipart epic might turn to" a couple of series of other contemporary authors. This Was a Man (Jeffrey Archer) This Was a Man is the seventh and final novel in Jeffrey Archer's Clifton Chronicles.