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SUMMARY:Deborah Levy
DESCRIPTION:‘I projected myself into her and she became music.’ In August Blue\, the latest novel by acclaimed author Deborah Levy\, virtuoso pianist Elsa M. Anderson sees a woman in a flea market in Athens who she believes is her double. Following a catastrophic performance where she walked off stage\, Elsa is on the run from her talent\, men and history. Spending the summer moving across western Europe\, the two women repeatedly cross paths\, until they finally confront each other in a rainstorm in Paris.  \nOne of our greatest contemporary novelists and a thoughtful and interesting speaker\, Deborah engages in ideas about time\, culture\, identity. She is the author of the living autobiographies Things I Don’t Want to Know\, The Cost of Living and Real Estate and several novels including the Booker Prize listed The Man Who Saw Everything\, Hot Milk and Swimming Home. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with the Centre for New Writing & Creative Manchester. Supported by Sofas & Stuff. \nImage credit: Sheila Burnett
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/deborah-levy-2/
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SUMMARY:Kate Mosse in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:‘I am\, indeed\, notorious\, feared over sea and land. I am the one they did not believe could exist. I am the commander of the Ghost Ship.’ In her gripping new novel\, The Ghost Ship\, internationally acclaimed author Kate Mosse tells the tale of a woman in a man’s world. A tale of adventure and liberation\, of hidden identities\, of love and revenge. Inspired by two real eighteenth-century female pirates\, the legendary Anne Bonny and Mary Read\, this is a swashbuckling\, swaggering tale set against the backdrop of the French religious civil wars and their aftermath. \nKate is the international bestselling author of ten novels and short story collections and several books of non-fiction. These include Labyrinth\, Sepulchre\, The Burning Chambers and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries. She is the Founder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the global campaign #WomanInHistory. Hosted by Beth Underdown\, author of The Witchfinder’s Sister and The Key in the Lock. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Sofas & Stuff.  \nImage copyright: Ruth Crafer
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/kate-mosse-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Elif Shafak: My Life in Books
DESCRIPTION:Much loved Turkish-British novelist and regular MLF guest Elif Shafak joins us for a very special event. Elif will discuss some of the writers and poets that have influenced and inspired her in her work and her life\, some of the books she returns to regularly for pleasure and guidance and her own life-long passion for reading\, writing and storytelling. Elif is a warm\, engaging and intelligent speaker whose enthusiasm for literature shines through. This will be a unique event\, not to be missed. \nElif is the author of 19 books\, including the novels The Island of Missing Trees\, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World and The Forty Rules of Love. An inspiring public speaker and an advocate for women’s rights\, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of expression\, Elif was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to ‘the renewal of the art of storytelling’. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Sofas & Stuff.  \nImage credit: Ferhat Elik
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/elif-shafak-my-life-in-books/
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SUMMARY:Christie Watson & Lorraine Candy
DESCRIPTION:‘THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES’ \n‘Is this the beginning of the end? Or the end of the beginning? How many women like me are changing like this\, all at once\, from a butterfly into a caterpillar?’ Through their latest books\, Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Friends\, Sex & Love and What’s Wrong With Me? Christie Watson and Lorraine Candy make smart\, funny\, relatable contributions to the growing conversation about women and midlife. How do we navigate perimenopause\, parenting and friendships with brain fog\, sleepless nights and changing brains and bodies? Hear these two friends and fabulous women share their experiences and feel less alone in navigating yours.  \nChristie is the author of the bestseller The Language of Kindness\, a critically acclaimed book about nursing and our need for compassion. She won the Costa First Novel award for her debut\, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away. She was a nurse for 20 years and is now Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Lorraine is an award-winning journalist\, formerly editor-in-chief of Sunday Times Style\, ELLE and Cosmopolitan. She is the co-host of the podcast Postcards from Midlife\, which features the stories of spirited midlife women and tackles parenting adolescents. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Sofas & Stuff. \nImage credit: Rebecca Reid
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/christie-watson-lorraine-candy/
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SUMMARY:Annie Macmanus
DESCRIPTION:‘To be honest with you\, I want to make music.’ In Annie Macmanus’ absorbing second novel The Mess We’re In it’s the early noughties and 21-year-old Orla Quinn has made her way to London with a burning desire to become part of the music industry. Moving into a squalid house in Kilburn with her friend Neema and up-and-coming rock band Shiva\, Orla works in the local Irish pub and takes work experience at a record label. Negotiating hedonism\, sex\, parties\, the pub locals and life in London\, all soundtracked by her favourite artists\, Orla learns what it will take to make it. \nA dynamic and enthusiastic speaker\, Annie will discuss the journey she’s undertaken from discussing other people’s stories to telling her own. Annie is internationally renowned as a DJ\, broadcaster and host. Her debut novel Mother Mother was critically acclaimed. She hosts the podcast Changes where she talks to people from all walks of life about the challenges they’ve faced. Hosted by Caroline Magennis\, Reader in 20th & 21st Century Literature at the University of Salford. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival. Sponsored by The Edwardian Manchester and supported by Sofas & Stuff. \nImage credit: Stephanie Sian Smith
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SUMMARY:Terrance Hayes\, Anthony Anaxagorou & Selina Nwulu
DESCRIPTION:Three dynamic poets perform work from their latest collections\, exploring identity\, heritage and injustice. Terrance Hayes returns to MLF with his blistering new work So to Speak. Exploring what it means to be an artist and a Black man\, Terrance writes about figures including Bob Ross\, Lil’ Wayne\, David Berman and George Floyd\, navigating his way through the predicaments of the present. Anthony Anaxagorou’s daring second collection Heritage Aesthetics asks what it means to have heritage. Considering Cyprus and the diasporic experience\, Anthony looks at colonialism and the impact on the public and the personal. Selina Nwulu’s superb debut collection A Little Resurrection melds the golden light of Senegal with the harsh winds of Yorkshire. Exploring grief\, injustice and an identity in constant flux. \nTerrance Hayes is one of America’s most exciting and innovative poets. His last collection American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and was the Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year. Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet. His previous collection After the Formalities was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Heritage Aesthetics was awarded the 2023 Ondaatje Prize. He is the artistic director of Out-Spoken. Selina Nwulu was the Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-6. Her first chapbook collection\, The Secrets I Let Slip is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. \nPresented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Manchester Poetry Library.  Supported by Sofas & Stuff. \nImage credit: Kathy Ryan
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SUMMARY:Gaia Vince in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:EVENT POSTPONED: Please note that due to travel disruptions we are having to postpone this event. Details of the new date will be confirmed shortly and our box office will be in touch with customers to offer a ticket transfer or refund. \n‘Have no doubt\, we are facing a species emergency – but we can manage it. We can survive\, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken.’ In her latest book\, Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval\, Gaia Vince promotes the idea of planned and extensive migration as key to surviving the climate crisis. A brilliant speaker\, Gaia will discuss how the relocation of hundreds of millions of people will allow us to adapt habitats and create global economic security. \nGaia Vince is an award-winning science writer\, journalist and broadcaster. She writes for the Observer and Guardian and presents on BBC R4. She is the author of the groundbreaking work Adventures in The Anthropocene for which she spent 2.5 years travelling to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are changing the planet forever. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Manchester Museum and hosted by Museum Director Esme Ward. Sponsored by Sofas & Stuff. \nImage credit: Phil Fisk
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/gaia-vince-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Simon Armitage
DESCRIPTION:‘Perhaps [song lyrics] have something that the poems don’t. Or perhaps they don’t have something that the poems do’. Where do song lyrics and poetry converge? Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has always been inspired as much by music as he is the written or spoken word. His latest book Never Good With Horses collects Simon’s musical outpourings\, from the lyrics written for his ambient post-rock band Land Yacht Regatta\, to the DIY indie band The Scaremongers to those written for film and theatre productions\, including the BAFTA-winning Feltham Sings\, for which Simon won an Ivor Novella Award. Join us to hear Simon read some of his favourites and discuss his love of language\, his creativity and compositions\, his collaborations with musicians\, and some of the songwriters and lyricists he admires. \nSimon is the author of numerous poetry collections including The Unaccompanied\, Seeing Stars and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He has won numerous awards including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Manchester Poetry Library. Supported by Sofas & Stuff.                                                                                                                             \nImage credit: Katie Silvester
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/simon-armitage/
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SUMMARY:Karl Ove Knausgaard in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Karl Ove Knausgaard\, author of My Struggle\, ‘the greatest literary invention of the 21st century’\, makes his MLF debut to discuss his dazzling new novel The Wolves of Eternity (translated by Martin Aitkin). In Southern Norway in 1986\, Syvert Løyning returns home from military service and discovers letters to his late father which lead him to the Soviet Union. In present day Russia\, Alevtina cares for her young son and\, with the help of her friend Vasilisa\, considers the belief in eternal life. But her existence is about to be upended in a way she hasn’t contemplated. \nA giant of contemporary literature with the ability to balance unflinching intimacy with big\, essential themes\, Karl is the much celebrated author of The Morning Star\, The Seasons Quartet and the My Struggle cycle of six autobiographical novels. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Sofas & Stuff. \nTickets £12/ £30 inc a copy of The Wolves of Eternity (£25 RRP) \nImage credit: Sølve Sundsbø
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/karl-ove-knausgaard-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Decolonising My Body with Afua Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:We’re channelling our ancestors\, crediting our ancestors\, claiming we are our ancestors “wildest dreams”\, and cautioning against our ancestors’ deepest nightmares.’ As she turned forty\, broadcaster and journalist Afua Hirsch set out to reconnect with her heritage and apply what she learned to her body. Through puberty rituals to body hair to waist beads to tattoos\, in her latest book Decolonising My Body\, Afua looks at ideas of how notions of beauty are constructed and stripped away\, empowering people to reconnect with their own ancestral heritage and healing their bodies and minds along the way. \nAfua Hirsch is a dynamic and fascinating speaker. An award-winning broadcaster\, appearing regularly on the BBC\, Sky News and CNN\, Afua co-presented Samuel L. Jackson’s major BBC TV series Enslaved in 2020. Her first book Brit(ish) was a Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. Afua will be in conversation with poet and MLF Patron Jackie Kay. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Sofas & Stuff. \nImage credit: Henry Gill
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/decolonising-my-body-with-afua-hirsch/
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SUMMARY:Lisa Nandy
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT \n‘I am determined that we seize this moment and rise to meet the challenge of our age: to build a country in which everyone has a stake and a contribution to make.’ In her first book\, All In: How we build a country that works\, Lisa Nandy sets out a way in which we can turn around the global changes\, political divisions and economic crises that have rocked the UK. How we can move from fear of differences to strength in our ability to work together and build a fairer\, more equal\, more prosperous country. \nOne of the stars of frontline politics\, Lisa is MP for Wigan and the Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up\, Housing and Communities. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Sofas & Stuff. Hosted by Katy Shaw\, Professor of 21st Century writing and publishing at Northumbria University and Director of the UKRI / AHRC Creative Communities programme.
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SUMMARY:Monica Heisey & Sheena Patel
DESCRIPTION:Two of fiction’s rising stars discuss their brilliant debut novels\, strong women characters\, narrative voice\, the perils of modern love and relationships\, and how we present ourselves in the physical and digital worlds. Monica Heisey is a writer and comedian from Toronto. She has written for television shows including Schitt’s Creek and Workin’ Moms. Her astute and wildly funny debut novel is Really Good\, Actually. Sheena Patel is a writer\, assistant director for the film and TV industry and part of the 4 Brown Girls Who Write collective. Her witty and acerbic debut novel\, I’m A Fan\, won the Discover Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2023\, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Sofas & Stuff. \n‘The novel I’ve been waiting for my whole life. Brutal\, sharp as broken glass\, funny\, delusional\, sexy\, troubling. Like Camus went rogue on Instagram.’ Sophie Heawood on Sheena Patel’s I’m A Fan \n‘Really Good\, Actually is a goddamn delight. Heisey doesn’t shy away from any of the hard stuff\, showcasing the myriad ways people turn into little monsters when their hearts get broken and they lose sight of themselves.’ Kristen Arnett on Monica Heisey’s Really Good\, Actually
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/monica-heisey-sheena-patel/
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