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SUMMARY:Black Britain Writing Back: Bernardine Evaristo
DESCRIPTION:MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL \nCelebrating 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 about Black Britain and the diaspora across the Twentieth Century. Joining Bernardine is Jacqueline Roy whose novel The Fat Lady Sings tells the stories of Gloria and Merle\, two women in adjacent beds in the ward of a mental hospital; Judith Bryan whose novel Bernard and the Cloth Monkey is a family psychodrama in which two sisters battle with a shared but suppressed history of secrets\, tensions and betrayals that need reckoning; and Nicola Williams’ Without Prejudice\, a thriller in which Lee Mitchell\, a Black working class barrister\, is succeeding against the odds. \nPlease note: We have reduced the capacity at this venue to increase space between seats so everyone can enjoy the event safely. If you’d like to sit with friends\, please book all seats together in the same transaction. Although masks are no longer mandatory under Government guidance\, we strongly encourage everyone to wear one when in close proximity to others\, particularly when entering and leaving the event. We also encourage everyone to use the sanitation stations and sign in using track and trace when they arrive.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/bernardine-evaristo-black-britain-writing-back/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Signing
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Alan Johnson
DESCRIPTION:MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL \nMuch-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\, Alan has turned to fiction\, joining us to discuss his thrilling debut novel The Late Train to Gypsy Hill. Featuring a Ukranian waitress mixed up in a poisoning plot and an administrator who finds himself on the run from Russian secret agents and the Met\, it’s an enthralling\, smartly written\, page turner. Alan will discuss his passion for plot-twists\, politics and writing with Ellah P Wakatama. \nPlease note: We have reduced the capacity at this venue to increase space between seats so everyone can enjoy the event safely. If you’d like to sit with friends\, please book all seats together in the same transaction. Although masks are no longer mandatory under Government guidance\, we strongly encourage everyone to wear one when in close proximity to others\, particularly when entering and leaving the event. We also encourage everyone to use the sanitation stations and sign in using track and trace when they arrive.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-alan-johnson/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Signing
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SUMMARY:Elif Shafak in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL \nA 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 her enchanting new novel\, The Island of Missing Trees\, Elif Shafak considers how the story of humans and the natural world are entwined. Set in London and the island of Cyprus\, Elif explores roots\, trauma and how understanding ourselves and our history can be healing. Elif is a British-Turkish novelist\, feminist and activist and we’re delighted to welcome her back to MLF. The author of 19 books\, translated into 54 languages\, Elif’s previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize\, and The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Elif will be in conversation with Ellah P Wakatama. \nPlease note: We have reduced the capacity at this venue to increase space between seats so everyone can enjoy the event safely. If you’d like to sit with friends\, please book all seats together in the same transaction. Although masks are no longer mandatory under Government guidance\, we strongly encourage everyone to wear one when in close proximity to others\, particularly when entering and leaving the event. We also encourage everyone to use the sanitation stations and sign in using track and trace when they arrive.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/elif-shafak-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Signing
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SUMMARY:Monique Roffey & Ingrid Persaud
DESCRIPTION:MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL\n\n\n‘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\, till it come.’ In The Mermaid of Black Conch\, Monique Roffey’s Costa Book of the Year winner\, the life of David\, one of the island’s fishermen\, is disrupted when he saves Aycayia\, a mermaid\, from her captors. While in Ingrid Persaud’s Love After Love\, Betty Ramdin invites Mr Chetan to lodge with her and her son Solo following the death of her husband/Solo’s father. The creation of a new\, unconventional\, family changes all of their lives.\n\n\n\n\nTwo award-winning Caribbean novelists join us to discuss determined women\, magical writing\, family and place. Monique Roffey is the author of seven books including The White Woman on the Green Bicycle\, which was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize. Ingrid has won both the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. Hosted by writer Kate Feld.\n\n\n\n\n  \nPlease note: We have reduced the capacity at this venue to increase space between seats so everyone can enjoy the event safely. If you’d like to sit with friends\, please book all seats together in the same transaction. Although masks are no longer mandatory under Government guidance\, we strongly encourage everyone to wear one when in close proximity to others\, particularly when entering and leaving the event. We also encourage everyone to use the sanitation stations and sign in using track and trace when they arrive.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/monique-roffey-ingrid-persaud/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Signing
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SUMMARY:Jeanette Winterson & Mark O’Connell
DESCRIPTION:MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL \n‘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 us about the future? Are we all doomed? And what’s gender got to do with it? Jeanette Winterson’s latest book 12 Bytes considers our relationship with AI\, how it might develop and what we need to know. In Notes from an Apocalypse Mark O’Connell (To Be a Machine) spends time with preppers\, rewilders and people who want to colonise Mars. Join us for what’s sure to be a fascinating discussion about what humanity might do next. Jeanette is the author of 10 novels for adults\, as well as children’s books\, screenplays and non-fiction\, including the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Mark’s first book To Be a Machine won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester and hosted by writer Kate Feld. \nPlease note: We have reduced the capacity at this venue to increase space between seats so everyone can enjoy the event safely. If you’d like to sit with friends\, please book all seats together in the same transaction. Although masks are no longer mandatory under Government guidance\, we strongly encourage everyone to wear one when in close proximity to others\, particularly when entering and leaving the event. We also encourage everyone to use the sanitation stations and sign in using track and trace when they arrive.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/jeanette-winterson-mark-oconnell/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Signing
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SUMMARY:Dave Haslam 'All You Need is Dynamite' Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:In ‘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 Haslam explores the fading of Sixties dreams of peace and love\, and the emergence of urban terrorist groups\, particularly the Angry Brigade who carried out dozens of bomb attacks in Britain. Haslam tracks the political campaigns\, the police repression\, and Angry Brigade links to Manchester and the city’s underground paper ‘Mole Express’ (a bible for local acid-freaks\, and fans of the Weather Underground and the Edgar Broughton Band); he uncovers a heady mix of left-wing politics\, psychedelic music\, police raids and political violence. \nAt this launch event Dave Haslam will be discussing this new book\, and welcoming special guest Bruce Mitchell; a renowned musician who played regularly at venues including Roger Eagle’s club the Magic Village (1968-1970). Copies of the book will for sale; a book signing will conclude the event. \nThe event will also mark the launch the Manchester Digital Music Archive online exhibition of back issues of ‘Mole Express’. \nAlthough Covid regulations have been relaxed\, we have cut the capacity of the venue by 40% to allow more social distancing\, and we would ask attendees to wear a mask at least on arrival at the Library. \nTickets are £6 (£3 concessions for unwaged\, low-waged and NHS staff) \n \n 
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/dave-haslam-all-you-need-is-dynamite-book-launch/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Music,Talks
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SUMMARY:Henry Normal in conversation with...
DESCRIPTION:Join Henry Normal as he chats and shares poems with award-winning wordsmiths from Flapjack Press. With audience Q&A. \nA series of live stream events\, 12 – 1pm each Wednesday from 14th July to 1st September. Brought to you by Flapjack Press\, Manchester Libraries and New Poetry Society. What better way to spend your lunchtime? \nFree but booking essential. \nHenry Normal is a poet\, writer\, TV and film producer\, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. Henry co-wrote and script edited The Mrs Merton Show and the spin-off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm. He also co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family and has collaborated extensively with Steve Coogan. Setting up Baby Cow Productions Ltd in 1999\, Henry Executive Produced all and script edited many of the shows during his tenure as MD. Highlights of the Baby Cow output during this time include Oscar-nominated Philomena\, Gavin and Stacey\, The Mighty Boosh\, Red Dwarf\, Nighty Night and Alan Partridge. In 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television. Since retiring\, Henry has written and performed seven BBC Radio 4 shows in his ‘occasional series’ A Normal…\, combining comedy\, poetry and stories about his life and family. \n“Shove up national treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal.” Radio Times \nYOU CAN BOOK FREE TICKETS HERE. \n  \n \nGerry Potter is a poet\, playwright\, actor\, director\, and both creator and destroyer of the infamous gingham diva Chloe Poems. A favourite son of Manchester and his hometown Liverpool\, he trained at Everyman Youth Theatre and National Museums Liverpool lists him amongst the city’s leading LGBTQ+ icons. The portrait documentary My Name is Gerry Potter premiered at Homotopia in 2015 and his first volume of domestic/fantastic theatre-verse\, 2009’s Planet Young\, was championed on BBC2’s Between the Covers.\n“Will amuse\, move\, inspire and provoke.” Polari Literary Salon \n \nGeneviève L. Walsh founded Halifax’s spoken word night Spoken Weird in 2013\, was a core member of the acclaimed troupe A Firm of Poets until their 2017 swansong\, and has been a host/curator with Manchester’s Stirred Poetry collective since the same year. Walsh debuted and toured their one-person show\, A Place in the Shade\, in 2019. Their second poetry collection\, Vitriol Works\, was published in 2021.\n“A unique and passionately inclusive voice.” Steve Nash\, UK Performer of the Year \n \nThick Richard has presented BBC Radio 6 Music’s Beat of the Day\, performed on BBC Radio 4\, hosted NME parties\, and gigged with Kae Tempest\, John Hegley\, Arthur Smith\, The Fall\, Jerry Sadowitz and (sort of) Dr John Cooper Clarke. He co-curated spoken word franchise Bang Said the Gun’s Manchester events during its run at The Dancehouse Theatre\, and his one-man show\, Swear School (a crash course in everything you wanted to know about bad language – with puppets)\, toured nationally. His flamboyant use of profanity once saw the official Edinburgh Fringe radio station temporarily closed down and he has been kidnapped on two separate and unconnected occasions. His latest collection of acerbic wit and wisdom\, Read ‘em and Weep\, was published in 2020.\n“His words are rattling and brilliant and shoot life back at you in all its futility and chaos and wonder.” Kate Tempest\, poet \n \nAnna Percy co-founded Stirred\, the influential pro-feminist collective which organises poetry performances and writing workshops throughout the north-west of England. Her award-winning poetry is written for both the page and the stage\, is post-pastoral\, occasionally surreal\, and an exercise in hope for sexual equality and an advocacy of women’s rights. Her third collection with Flapjack Press\, Jumping into a Waterfall\, was published in 2020.\n“A fabulous feminist fighter.” Shirley May\, poet \n \nTony Curry is a performance poet\, playwright\, workshop facilitator\, soundsmith and enabler. He runs literature-in-the-community projects with a specific leaning towards mental health and wellbeing across the north-west. His solo shows and plays have been performed at Manchester’s Royal Exchange and Contact theatres\, and his work has been exhibited at the city’s art galleries and museum. Tony is also host of Word Central\, the monthly spoken word event at Manchester Central Library coordinated by Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries. His third poetry collection\, We Kid Ourselves\, was published in 2021.\n“This is our poetry. These are our poems.” Tony Walsh\, poet \n \nDominic Berry is a performance poet whose work for adults and children has taken him across five continents. He has been Glastonbury Festival’s poet-in-residence and his awards include winning Manchester Literature Festival’s Superheroes of Slam\, New York’s Nuyorican Poets’ Café Slam\, and he has twice been publicly voted Sabotage Review’s Best Spoken Word Performer. Dominic regularly performs at the Edinburgh Fringe and his TV appearances include BBC’s Greg & Celia’s Festivals Highlights\, Rhyme Rocket and Channel 4’s My Daughter the Teenage Nudist. His third collection for adults\, No Tigers\, was revised and reissued in 2020\, and his fifth poetry adventure for children\, Best Adventure Ever!\, was published in 2021.\n“Emotive\, intelligent and raw… quite delicious and totally engaging.” City Life \n \nRose Condo is a Canadian poet now based in Salford\, England. With a background in theatre\, she has been writing\, performing and teaching for over twenty years and was longlisted for the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. Rose has won numerous poetry slams and her poetry theatre show\, The Empathy Experiment\, received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and went on to win the award for Best Spoken Word Show at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival 2019. Her debut collection\, After the Storm\, was published in 2020\, and contains the scripts of her three award-winning poetry theatre shows: The Geography of Me\, How to Starve and Artist and The Empathy Experiment.\n“A steadying reminder of compassion in a world tipped off its axis.” Rosie Garland\, poet & author \n \nPaul Cookson has worked as a poet for over three decades\, performing in schools and libraries\, and at literature festivals and events across the world. As well as being Poet-in-Residence for The National Football Museum and Everton in the Community\, he is Writer-in-Residence for Sing Together\, which involves 125 Lancastrian schools with over 5000 children and 400 teachers. In 2020 he was commissioned by the BBC to write and perform a poem for the Women’s FA Cup Final. Paul has more than sixty titles to his name and over a million book sales – and with a quarter of a million copies sold alone\, the anthology The Works has become a teacher’s ‘poetry Bible’. The third volume of his poem-a-day lockdown diaries\, Pig’s Ear\, Dog’s Dinner\, was published in July. A fourth and final collection\, Nail on the Head\, is due in November.\n“Every day should have a Paul Cookson moment.” Simon Mayo\, broadcaster & author \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Publishes the most cutting-edge poetic performers” – Writing Manchester\nShortlisted Saboteur Awards’ Most Innovative Publisher & Northern Soul Awards’ Best Northern Publisher
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/henry-normal-in-conversation-with/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Sarah Butler
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate #LibrariesWeek with Manchester Libraries and acclaimed author Sarah Butler. \nSarah is a writer and literature activist who lives in Manchester. She has three novels published by Picador in the UK: Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love\, Before The Fire and Jack and Bet which was published in early 2020. \nIn 2007\, Sarah established the literature consultancy UrbanWords\, through which she explores the relationship between writing and place through prose\, poetry and participatory projects. \nSarah joined Manchester Metropolitan University as Lecturer in Creative Writing in June 2018. \nSaran will be in conversation and reading from her latest novel\, followed by a Q&A and the opportunity for audience questions. \nJack and Bet \nJack is a man of few words\, married to a woman of many. He and Bet have been together for seventy years — almost a lifetime — and happily so\, for the most part. \nAll Jack and Bet want is to enjoy the time they have left together\, in the flat they have tried to make their home. Their son Tommy has other ideas: he wants them to live somewhere with round-the-clock care\, hot meals\, activities. Bet thinks they can manage just fine. \nWhen they strike up an unlikely friendship with Marinela\, a young Romanian woman\, Bet thinks she has found the perfect solution — one that could change Marinela’s life as well as theirs. But this means revisiting an old love affair\, and confronting a long-buried secret she has kept hidden from everyone\, even Jack\, for many years. \nTender\, moving\, and beautifully told\, Jack and Bet is an unforgettable novel about love and loss\, the joys and regrets of a long marriage\, and the struggle to find a place to call home. \nThe event will take place via Live Webinar. We’ll send all the details on how you can join the event in the confirmation email.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-sarah-butler/
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Online Event,Readings
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Lesley Pearse
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Libraries\, Libraries Connected and Penguin Books invite you to join us for a special Friday evening with the hugely popular author Lesley Pearse. \nLesley Pearse was told as a child that she had too much imagination for her own good. When she grew up she worked her way through a number of jobs\, including nanny\, bunny girl\, dressmaker and full-time mother\, before\, at the age of forty-nine\, settling upon a career that would allow her gifts to blossom: she became a published writer. Lesley lives in Devon and has three daughters and four grandchildren.  \nWIN A BOTTLE OF FIZZ! \nEveryone who registers will be entered into a prize draw to win a bottle of Prosecco (or non alcoholic alternative) to enjoy a glass of while taking part in the event with Lesley. Please remember to fill in your address when registering so we can post it out to you. The closing date is Sunday 20 September.  \nLiar by Lesley Pearse \nDiscover the enthralling new story of murder and lies by the bestselling author of ‘You’ll Never See Me Again’. \nIn a Shepherd’s Bush bedsit\, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she’s come is selling advertising in the local paper. \nUntil the fateful day she stumbles on a truly shocking scoop. \nRound the corner from her home\, she discovers the body of a murder victim\, dumped among the rubbish. When the police and reporters descend\, Amelia is horrified at the assumptions made and lies soon to be spread about this poor young woman. \nDetermined to protect the victim from these smears and help her grieving family\, she convinces her paper’s editor to allow her to take up her pen and tell the true story. \nBut when another body is found and the police investigation stalls\, Amelia – uncovering new witnesses and suspects in her search for clues – discovers that she may be the only one with any chance of learning the truth and stopping more killings. \nIf only she can work out who the liar is . . . \nPraise for Lesley Pearse \n‘Storytelling at its very best’ Daily Mail  \n‘Evocative\, compelling\, told from the heart’ Sunday Express \n‘Glorious\, heartwarming’ Woman & Home \n‘Intriguing\, heart-tugging\, beautifully written’ Closer
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-lesley-pearse/
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SUMMARY:Val McDermid & Denise Mina
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival presents… \nQueens 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 Hill and DCI Carol Jordan together again when the remains of a killer\, who’s supposedly alive and in prison\, are found on a construction site. In Conviction\, Denise weaves together the break-up of Anna McDonald’s marriage and a true crime podcast\, to force Anna to confront her hidden past. \nVal is the highly acclaimed writer of over 40 books including The Wire in the Blood and Denise won the Gordon Burn Prize for The Long Drop. 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/val-mcdermid-denise-mina/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191020T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191020T203000
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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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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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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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191014T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191014T203000
DTSTAMP:20260624T145745
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191013T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191013T173000
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191013T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191013T153000
DTSTAMP:20260624T145745
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T200000
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T200000
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T143000
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191007T190000
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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191006T153000
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T200000
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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/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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