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SUMMARY:Clementine Ford: Boys Will Be Boys
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \n‘The status quo might revere men as a class\, but it destroys them as individuals.’ In Boys Will Be Boys\, Australian feminist Clementine Ford’s furious and funny new book\, she considers why toxic masculinity isn’t just bad for women\, it’s also bad for men and boys. Through research\, culture and anecdotes\, Clementine looks at our approach to gender\, and how it represses children and the adults they become. Rather than discussing how to arm and protect girls\, Clementine flips the question and asks how should we protect boys from masculine stereotypes and raise them to be feminist allies? Hosted by Anita Sethi. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/clementine-ford-boys-will-be-boys/
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SUMMARY:Cathy Newman: Bloody Brilliant Women
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nBloody Brilliant Women\, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman’s fascinating history of British women\, asks two important questions: what were the sources of female power in the 20th century?\, and what have women used this power to achieve? Cathy introduces us to women who’ve been long overlooked – from bookbinder Emma Paterson (founder of the Women’s Protective and Provident League) to engineer Beatrice Shilling\, who invented a brass collar to prevent fuel flooding RAF plane engines. From journalist Claudia Jones (founder of Notting Hill Carnival) to those who are leading the march onwards in the 21st century. Cathy will be in conversation with host Alex Clark. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/cathy-newman-bloody-brilliant-women/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191006T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191006T180000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Criado Perez: Invisible Women
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nIt really is a man’s world. In her latest book Invisible Women\, writer and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez (Do It Like a Woman) considers how the perspective we have of the world has been recorded and shaped by men\, leaving silence and gaps when it comes to the stories and needs of women. From the temperature in the office and the height of shelves\, to smartphones and fitness monitors\, work-related cancers and crash-test dummies\, Caroline reveals how the data bias impacts in hidden ways on women’s health\, well-being and how we live our everyday lives. \nCaroline’s most notable campaigns have included getting Jane Austen – the first woman other than Queen Elizabeth II – to appear on Bank of England banknotes\, and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square. Caroline will be in conversation with host Alex Clark. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/caroline-criado-perez-invisible-women/
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191007T203000
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SUMMARY:Celeste Ng in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nCeleste Ng\, author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere\, joins us to talk about her work. Her gripping novels explore themes of race\, class and privilege through family dynamics\, and ideas of home and exile\, both in 1970s America and the present day. Celeste questions what it means to belong\, asking what happens if long-held beliefs are challenged by new events. A writer of short fiction and essays\, as well as a multi-award-winning novelist\, Celeste will discuss her craft\, her literary influences and what it’s like to have your work adapted for television. Hosted by Anita Sethi. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/celeste-ng-in-conversation/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T130000
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SUMMARY:Legna Rodríguez Iglesias\, Abigail Parry & Serafina Vick
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nCelebrated Cuban writer\, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias launches her bi-lingual poetry collection A little body are many parts. Legna has won a number of prestigious national and international prizes including the Premio Paz for her collection\, Miami Century Fox. Her intense\, often confrontational\, poetry irreverently skewers the hypocrisies of the Catholic church\, and challenges social mores with an uncomfortable focus on the human body. Legna will read alongside Abigail Parry\, who will share English translations of Legna’s poems\, and they will be joined in conversation by bridge-translator Serafina Vick. Presented in partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre. \nTickets FREE – booking advised \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/legna-rodriguez-iglesias-abigail-parry-serafina-vick/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T183000
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SUMMARY:Kerry Hudson: Lowborn
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \n“I decided that I’d start to try to acknowledge the strength it had taken for me to get through\, and over\, my upbringing and become the woman I am today.” \nKerry Hudson grew up in a succession of council estates and B&Bs in some of the UK’s poorest towns. In her timely and heart-breaking memoir\, Lowborn\, she recounts her experiences of growing up in poverty in the 80s and 90s\, returning to each of the places she was raised in – from Aberdeen to Canterbury – to see the effects of Tory austerity in the present day. Kerry is the author of two award-winning novels\, Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma and Thirst. She will be in conversation with Naomi Frisby. \nTickets FREE – booking advised \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/kerry-hudson-lowborn/
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SUMMARY:Elif Shafak
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nDoes anyone care about a sex worker\, murdered and abandoned in a bin in Istanbul? Tequila Leila’s friends do. In her superb new novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World\, Elif Shafak considers the meaning of family – the one we’re born into and the one we create – the restrictions society places on anyone deemed different\, and what it really means to live. \nElif is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist (Honour\, The Bastard of Istanbul) and the most read female author in Turkey. An advocate for women’s rights\, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of speech\, Elif is an inspiring public speaker. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/elif-shafak/
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SUMMARY:Deborah Levy
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \n‘You are history.’ In her stunning new novel\, The Man Who Saw Everything\, Deborah Levy considers duality: duality of time\, of place\, of people. She explores how those dualities might affect our perspective – personally and politically – and how time might not be linear at all. \nAn acclaimed British playwright\, novelist and poet\, Deborah has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk.  Her superb recent ‘living autobiographies’ Things I Don’t Want to Know and The Cost of Living explore what it means to be a woman and a writer in the 21st century. Hosted by Kate Feld. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/deborah-levy/
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SUMMARY:Mona Eltahawy: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nLeading feminist activist Mona Eltahawy (Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution) is on a mission to arm women and dismantle the patriarchy.  Through her new manifesto\, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls\, Mona plans to teach women and girls to harness their power through embracing the sins they’re not supposed to commit: to be angry\, ambitious\, profane\, violent\, attention-seeking\, lustful and powerful. Join her at Manchester Literature Festival to be part of the feminist revolution. \nMona is an Egyptian-American author\, broadcaster and social commentator.  She has been acknowledged as spearheading the #MosqueMeToo movement and has won a number of prizes including the Women’s Media Centre Speaking Truth to Power Award. Hosted by Mariam Khan\, Editor of It’s Not About the Burqa. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/mona-eltahawy-the-seven-necessary-sins-for-women-and-girls/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191014T190000
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SUMMARY:Jung Chang
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \n‘One loved money\, one loved power and one loved her country’. \nInternational bestselling Chinese author\, Jung Chang discusses her gripping new biography Big Sister\, Little Sister\, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China. The book tells the story of the three extraordinary Soong sisters from Shanghai who\, via their own and their husbands’ positions of power\, shaped the course of 20th century China\, leaving an indelible mark on history. \nJung is the acclaimed author of three previous non-fiction books including Wild Swans\, which has sold 20 million copies and is banned in mainland China. Hosted by Alex Clark. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/jung-chang/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T190000
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SUMMARY:Howard Jacobson
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nIs it possible to find love in your nineties? In Howard Jacobson’s hilarious new novel Live a Little\, nonagenarians Beryl Dusinbery and Shimi Carmelli reflect on their lives. Beryl’s problem is that she’s forgetting things – particularly about her lovers – while Shimi remembers everything and clings to a moment of shame from his childhood. Can they find healing and redemption in each other? \nA much-loved Manchester writer\, Howard is the author of 16 novels including the Booker Prize-winning The Finkler Question\, and won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature with Zoo Time. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/howard-jacobson-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191017T190000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Moggach
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents…                               \nIn her witty and poignant new novel\, The Carer\, much loved novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach tells the tale of James\, his new carer Mandy\, and his middle-aged children\, Phoebe and Robert. Has the arrival of Mandy prompted a change in James\, or did Phoebe and Robert simply not know him that well in the first place? \nDeborah considers family\, aging\, and the stories we construct to protect ourselves and others. She is the author of 19 novels\, including Tulip Fever and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel\, as well as film and television adaptations\, including the BAFTA-nominated Pride & Prejudice. Hosted by Rachel Cooke. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/deborah-moggach/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191020T163000
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SUMMARY:It’s Not About the Burqa
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents… \nRaifa Rafiq\, Salma El-Wardany\, Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied & Afshan D’souza Lodhi \nIn 2016\, former Prime Minster\, David Cameron\, said he considered Muslim women to be traditionally submissive. Frustrated by constantly being told what Muslim women were like\, It’s Not About the Burqa anthology editor Mariam Khan wanted Muslim women to voice their own narratives and identities. Salma El-Wardany asks\, ‘where’s the conversation about sex and women’s pleasure in Muslim communities?’\, Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied recounts her epiphany on realising that being a woman in engineering could be a good thing and Afshan D’souza-Lodhi claims her identity as a queer Muslim woman. Join them as they discuss these issues\, showing It’s Not About the Burqa. Hosted by Raifa Rafiq\, co-host of the Mostly Lit podcast. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/its-not-about-the-burqa/
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SUMMARY:Jackie Kay Presents
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents… \nExceptional times call for exceptional writers. Scottish Makar\, poet\, and novelist Jackie Kay introduces her selection of ten of the most exciting BAME (black\, Asian and minority ethnic people) writers working in the UK today. \nExperience incredible writing\, and find out why Jackie feels these are the writers who are influencing and shaping the UK’s poetry and literature scenes. Jackie will be joined in conversation with three of her chosen writers as she explores what makes their work so vital. Presented by the National Centre for Writing and British Council as part of the International Literature Showcase\, a nationwide project to showcase the diversity of writers working in the UK today. \nFor tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/jackie-kay-presents/
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