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SUMMARY:Yuan Yang
DESCRIPTION:UNFORTUNATELY\, THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELLED \nYuan Yang is no longer able to travel to Manchester due to her new parliamentary commitments and constituency obligations and is very sorry to miss the opportunity to meet our audience. \nQuaytickets will be in touch with all existing ticket holders to offer a refund. \nIn Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China\, British-Chinese journalist Yuan Yang tells the fascinating story of modern China through the lives of four ordinary women. Leiya\, born in a patriarchal rural village\, bluffs her way onto the factory floor; June sets herself a goal to attend university rather than raise pigs; Siyue rebels against her teachers and then remakes the education system for others\, and Sam becomes an activist while her peers are disappearing from the streets. \nYuan Yang was born in China and returned there as an adult as a correspondent for the Financial Times. After the mass expulsion of journalists from China in 2020\, she was one of the few journalists writing in English left in the country. She now lives in London and is the Labour MP for Earley and Woodley. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Library Live. \nImage credit: Inigo Blake \nTickets: ‘Book Now’ below\, visit the MLF website or phone 0161 876 2015
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/yuan-yang/
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SUMMARY:Lindsey Hilsum
DESCRIPTION:‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ \nIn the four decades she’s spent as a foreign correspondent\, Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry with her. Poetry has helped her to make sense of the world and acted ‘as a vaccination against despair’. In this special event\, Lindsey will reflect on some of the poems collected in her captivating new book I Brought the War with Me and discuss her career\, during which she has interviewed the warlords of Bosnia and Sudan\, met child soldiers in Uganda and given testimony about the genocide in Rwanda. \nLindsey is Channel 4 News’ International Editor. Her book\, In Extremis: the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin\, won the James Tait Black Prize for biography. She has covered the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades\, including Syria\, Mali\, Iraq\, and Kosovo and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She has won many awards\, including the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year and the Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Medal. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. Supported by Library Live. \nTickets: ‘Book Now’ below\, phone 0161 876 2015 or visit the MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/lindsey-hilsum/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241007T080000
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SUMMARY:Asako Yuzuki
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED VENUE FROM WATERSTONES DEANSGATE TO CENTRAL LIBRARY \n\n‘There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.’ \nA Japanese bestseller\, Butter is the story of gourmet cook and serial killer Manako Kajii. Convicted of seducing lonely businessmen with her cooking and killing them for their money\, Manako is incarcerated in Tokyo Detention Centre\, refusing visitors. That is until journalist Rika Machida writes to her asking for her beef stew recipe and Manako can’t resist. Rika thinks she’s about to get the biggest scoop of her career but when she begins taking Manako’s cooking advice it seems Rika’s life is about to change in ways she never expected. Funny\, feminist and absolutely mouthwatering\, Butter is inspired by the real-life case of ‘The Konkatsu Killer’. \nAsako Yuzuki is a novelist and short story writer. Her story ‘Forget Me\, Not Blue’ won the All Yomimono Award for New Writers. Her novel Nile Perch Women’s Club won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. Several of her books (including Butter) have been nominated for the Naoki Prize and many have been adapted for radio\, film and television. \nHosted by Caroline Magennis\, Associate Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of Salford and author of Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women. Presented in partnership with The Japan Foundation and 4th Estate. \nSupported by Library Live \nBook tickets: 0161 876 2015\, ‘Book Now’ below or MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/asako-yuzuki/
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CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241008T190000
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SUMMARY:Paula Hawkins
DESCRIPTION:‘Reminiscent of du Maurier and extremely hard to put down. The Blue Hour is destined to be a big hit.’ Mick Herron \nWhen a bone at the centre of a famous sculpture is identified as human\, the life the recently deceased artist Vanessa Chapman led with her companion Grace on the remote tidal island of Eris comes under scrutiny. What happened to Vanessa’s husband who vanished without trace twenty years ago? Paula Hawkins’ thrilling new novel The Blue Hour asks questions about the ways in which female artists and their work are framed in a world dominated by male critics and dealers. \nPaula Hawkins is the international bestselling author of three novels\, Into the Water\, A Slow Fire Burning and The Girl on the Train. The latter has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide\, broke the UK record for weeks at number one in the bestseller list and was turned into a hit film starring Emily Blunt. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Library Live. \nImage credit: Phoebe Grigor \nTickets: ‘Book Now’ below\, phone 0161 876 2015 or visit the MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/paula-hawkins/
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SUMMARY:Rumaan Alam in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:‘This is what governs all of life. We agree to rules. Most of us. There are some\, though\, you know\, who do not obey\, who are not asked to observe them.’ \nWhen Brooke Orr starts a new job at the Asher and Carole Jaffee Foundation\, helping an 80-year-old billionaire to give away his vast fortune\, she has good intentions. But a glimpse of the lifestyles of the 1% leads to Brooke wanting more for herself. A decision that can only lead to destruction. Rumaan Alam joins us to discuss his fantastic\, insightful new novel Entitlement\, as well as the Netflix adaptation of his gripping international bestseller Leave the World Behind starring Mahershala Ali and Julia Roberts. \nRumaan Alam is the international bestselling and critically acclaimed author of three novels. His last\, Leave the World Behind\, was a Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick\, a Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month\, a finalist for the National Book Awards for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Library Live. \nTickets: ‘Book Now’ below\, phone 0161 876 2015 or visit the MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/rumaan-alam-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Joe Boyd
DESCRIPTION:“New technologies may divert our attention\, but music created in the moment can still be found where it always has been\, in the feet\, fingers\, voices and spirits of musicians in every corner of the world.”  \nLegendary music producer Joe Boyd (White Bicycle: Making Music in the 1960s) invites you to open your ‘minds and ears to a wider\, richer musical world’ via his engrossing book And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music. Joe follows the circular flows of musical influence across history and the globe\, discovering why so many artists ended up in prison because of their music\, how Afrobeat began with a subscription to an American jazz magazine\, and why Frank Sinatra owed his career to a French tango singer from Buenos Aires.    \nJoe is a record producer and writer. Over the course of his 60-year career\, he has produced Pink Floyd\, Nick Drake\, R.E.M.\, Fairport Convention\, ¡Cubanismo!\, Toots and the Maytals\, Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal\, amongst many others. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. Supported by Library Live. \nTickets: ‘Book Now’ below\, phone 0161 876 2015 or visit the MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/joe-boyd/
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SUMMARY:Susanna Clarke: My Life in Books
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. \n‘Some stories sink down into your bones.’  \nAward-winning novelist Susanna Clarke (Piranesi) joins us to discuss how writing and reading have shaped her life. From her worldwide bestseller Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell\, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year\, to her enchanting new story The Wood at Midwinter. Discover the writers who’ve inspired Susannah to become such a magical storyteller including Ursula Le Guin\, Jorge Luis Borges\, Charles Dickens and Kate Bush. \n‘One of our great living authors’ (New York Magazine)\, Susanna lives and writes in Derbyshire. She is the author of two novels and a short story collection. Her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year\, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. Her last novel\, Piranesi\, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Library Live. \nImage credit: Sarah Lee \nTickets: ‘Book Now’ below\, phone 0161 876 2015 or visit the MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/susanna-clarke-my-life-in-books/
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SUMMARY:Andrew O’Hagan & Dave Haslam
DESCRIPTION:‘Andrew O’Hagan has made more than a great book – he has made a social miracle.’ Joshua Cohen \nScottish author Andrew O’Hagan joins us to discuss his gripping new state-of-the-nation novel Caledonian Road with host Dave Haslam. Art historian and celebrated critic Campbell Flynn is beguiled by his provocative student Milo Mangasha who leads him to question everything he thinks about the world. Set against a backdrop of disgraced peers\, human traffickers\, rappers and a disgruntled sitting tenant\, the novel asks questions about wealth\, capitalism\, the climate crisis and if it’s time for a new world order. \nAndrew is a novelist and editor-at-large of the London Review of Books. Three of his novels – Our Fathers\, Be Near Me and The Illuminations – were nominated for the Booker Prize. His previous novel\, Mayflies\, was a Guardian\, Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the Year and was made into an award-winning BBC TV drama starring Martin Compston and Tony Curran. \nDave Haslam is an author\, broadcaster and DJ. His books include Life After Dark; Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor; Manchester\, England and the Art Decades series. Sponsored by The Edwardian Manchester. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. Supported by Library Live. \nImage credit: Christina Jansen \nTickets: ‘Book Now’ below\, phone 0161 876 2015 or visit the MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/andrew-ohagan-dave-haslam/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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SUMMARY:Daisy Johnson & Andrew Michael Hurley
DESCRIPTION:Two masters of folk horror join us to discuss their chilling\, atmospheric new books\, both set in a single location over a significant period of time. The Hotel by Daisy Johnson begins with a hotel built on a possessed plot of land – its origins evident when a woman is accused of witchcraft – and ends with students disappearing whilst making a film. Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley begins when a group of marsh-folk are forced from their homes and find a new place to settle and ends in a near-future flood zone where humans and the climate catastrophe have ravaged the planet. \nDaisy Johnson is the youngest ever author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under. She is the author of Fen and Sisters. Her debut play\, Viola’s Room\, was produced by immersive theatre company Punchdrunk and she was a writer on the play Robin/Red/Breast starring Maxine Peake. Andrew Michael Hurley is the author of three novels. The Loney won the Costa Best First Novel Award and the Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Devil’s Day won the Encore Award. Starve Acre is soon to be released as a film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Library Live. \nTickets: ‘Book Now ‘below\, phone 0161 876 2015 or visit the MLF website
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/daisy-johnson-andrew-michael-hurley/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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SUMMARY:Crime Central Halloween Special!
DESCRIPTION:Rob Parker and Manchester Libraries invite you to a CRIME CENTRAL SPOOKTACULAR!! \nWith Jo Callaghan\, Graeme Cumming and Steve Kedie!  \nBringing the best from all over! \nFeaturing the best and brightest crime writing talent both locally and from around the country – the big names are all coming to Manchester! \nGo behind the scenes! \nShowcasing blockbuster bestsellers\, emerging talent and industry insiders\, Crime Central will share the real story of what goes on in the crime world. \nMeet your favourite authors! \nWith giveaways\, audience interaction\, book signings\, the chance to ask questions and more – while bringing a crime fiction buzz back to this great northern city \n \n 
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/crime-central-halloween-special/
LOCATION:Performance Space
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