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Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Celebrated Cuban writer, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias launches her bi-lingual poetry collection A […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               “I decided that I’d start to try to acknowledge the strength it […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Does anyone care about a sex worker, murdered and abandoned in a […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘You are history.’ In her stunning new novel, The Man Who Saw […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Leading feminist activist Mona Eltahawy (Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country’. International […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Is it possible to find love in your nineties? In Howard Jacobson’s […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               In her witty and poignant new novel, The Carer, much loved novelist […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents... Raifa Rafiq, Salma El-Wardany, Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied & Afshan D’souza Lodhi In 2016, former Prime Minster, David Cameron, said he considered Muslim women to be traditionally […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents... Exceptional 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 […]

Manchester Literature Festival presents... Queens of Tartan Noir, Val McDermid and Denise Mina, join us to discuss their brilliant new novels. In How the Dead Speak, Val brings Dr Tony […]