Val McDermid & Denise Mina
Performance SpaceManchester 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 […]
£12
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An Evening with Lesley Pearse
OnlineManchester Libraries, Libraries Connected and Penguin Books invite you to join us for a special Friday evening with the hugely popular author Lesley Pearse. Lesley Pearse was told as a […]
An Evening with Sarah Butler
Celebrate #LibrariesWeek with Manchester Libraries and acclaimed author Sarah Butler. Sarah is a writer and literature activist who lives in Manchester. She has three novels published by Picador in the […]
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Henry Normal in conversation with…
OnlineJoin Henry Normal as he chats and shares poems with award-winning wordsmiths from Flapjack Press. With audience Q&A. A series of live stream events, 12 - 1pm each Wednesday from […]
Dave Haslam ‘All You Need is Dynamite’ Book Launch
Performance SpaceIn ‘All You Need Is Dynamite: Acid, the Angry Brigade, and the End of the Sixties’ - the latest in his Art Decades series of small format books - Dave […]
Jeanette Winterson & Mark O’Connell
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL ‘How did we get here? Where might we go?’ Is the future ‘a screen onto which we project our fantasies and terrors’? What can the past tell […]
£10 – £12
Monique Roffey & Ingrid Persaud
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL ‘Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, […]
£10 – £12
Elif Shafak in Conversation
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL A fig tree with a tale to tell; a grieving teenage girl who wants to know her family’s story; two sets of lovers hiding from society. In […]
£8 – £10
An Evening with Alan Johnson
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL Much-loved former Labour MP Alan Johnson makes a welcome return to MLF. Following his series of successful memoirs – This Boy, In My Life, The Long and Winding Road and Please, Mr Postman, […]
£10 – £12
Black Britain Writing Back: Bernardine Evaristo
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL Celebrating a landmark new series curated by Booker Prize winning writer Bernardine Evaristo, Black Britain Writing Back re-introduces lost or hard-to-find books by Black writers who wrote […]
£6 – £8
¡No Pasarán! – North West International Brigade Memorial Group
Performance SpaceNorth West International Brigade Memorial Group invite you to join us for ¡No Pasarán!, a day of commemoration of those Greater Manchester men and women who fought against Franco, Hitler […]
TO PARADISE – Hanya Yanagihara in conversation with Kamila Shamsie
Performance SpaceHanya Yanagihara, author of the million-copy bestseller A Little Life, introduces her incredible new novel TO PARADISE. About this event We're thrilled to be welcoming Hanya Yanagihara, author of the […]
£10 – £25
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