Crime Central
Performance SpaceAs the nights get darker, Crime Central returns with three amazing authors and three new books to chill your bones. Rob Parker welcomes Fiona Erskine, Luca Veste and Neil Broadfoot to […]
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Book Launch
How to Find Where You Belong by Rose Condo
Performance SpaceAUTHOR PERFORMANCE AND BOOK SIGNING WITH SPECIAL GUESTS LISA O'HARE AND SHARINA LEE SATTI. Twenty years since moving from Canada to the UK, critically-acclaimed and multi-award-winning poet Rose Condo considers […]
Book launch: Selected Plays by Cathy Crabb
Performance SpaceSelected Plays by Cathy Crabb Monday 22nd January 6pm at Manchester Central Library No need to book tickets. FREE entry. Everyone welcome. Doors open 5.40pm. Celebrating twenty years of productions, award-winning […]
Book Launch: PITY by Andrew McMillan
Performance SpaceBlackwell's Bookshop and Manchester Libraries are excited to host the Manchester launch of award-winning poet Andrew McMillan's PITY - his stunning debut novel which explores community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern England. Doors: […]
Book Launch: Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey
Performance SpaceTHIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. Waterstones Manchester Arndale and Manchester Libraries are thrilled to present an evening with bestselling author Tessa Bailey as we celebrate the publication of Fangirl […]
VULTURE CAPITALISM – Grace Blakeley Book Launch
Performance SpaceWe're thrilled to be welcoming author and jounalist Grace Blakeley to Manchester for the launch of her explosive new book VULTURE CAPITALISM - a fresh look at the problems of […]
Percival Everett in Conversation
Performance SpacePresented by Manchester Literature Festival ‘With my pencil, I wrote myself into being.’ In James, Percival Everett’s thrilling retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the enslaved Jim is allowed to […]
David Nicholls in Conversation
Performance SpaceTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Presented by Manchester Literature Festival A welcome return to Manchester Literature Festival for one of the UK’s best loved authors. David Nicholls joins us to discuss his witty and […]
George the Poet
Performance SpaceTRACK RECORD - George the Poet in conversation with Okechukwu Nzelu Join us for the Manchester launch of TRACK RECORD - the ground-breaking new memoir from acclaimed rapper and podcast […]
Olivia Laing: The Garden Against Time
Performance SpacePresented by Manchester Literature Festival. ‘A garden is a time capsule, as well as a portal out of time.’ In her compelling new work of non-fiction The Garden Against Time, Olivia […]
Dominic Berry: How Can I Be Now?
Performance SpaceFlapjack Press presents How Can I Be Now?, Selected Poems by Dominic Berry. “Maybe I’m strange, but I want to ask whether I’m the only one who wishes more people cried […]
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