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SUMMARY:An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith
DESCRIPTION:20 years ago\, Precious Ramotswe established The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Gabarone\, Botswana. The subsequent novels in Alexander McCall Smith’s series became a literary phenomenon\, and have since been translated into 46 different languages. A prolific and much-loved writer\, Alexander has written and contributed to over 100 books\, and his series\, 44 Scotland Street\, is the longest running serial novel in the world. Alexander is also a lover of tea\, travel and fried Marmite sandwiches. We’re delighted that he’s able to fit in a special visit to MLF to discuss his extraordinary career\, his unique characters\, and his latest Mma Ramotswe adventure\, The Colours of All the Cattle. Hosted by critic Alex Clark.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/evening-alexander-mccall-smith/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181008T130000
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SUMMARY:Azita Ghahreman & Maura Dooley
DESCRIPTION:One of Iran’s leading poets\, Azita Ghahreman’s work is lyrical and intimate\, addressing themes of loss\, exile and female desire\, as well as the changing face of her country. Her latest collection\, Negative of a Group Photograph\, brings together three decades of poems brought to life in English by the poet Maura Dooley\, working in collaboration with translator Elhum Shakerifar. The poems run the gamut of Azita’s experience: from her childhood in the Khorasan region of south-eastern Iran\, to her exile to Sweden; from Iran’s book-burning years and the war in Iraq\, to her unexpected encounters with love. At this bilingual event\, Azita will read alongside Maura\, who will share her English translations of Azita’s poems. This event is presented in partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre. \nTickets are free but booking is advised \n(Donations welcome on the door)
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/azita-ghahreman-maura-dooley/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T210000
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SUMMARY:Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls
DESCRIPTION:The tale of Achilles and the Trojan War has been told many times\, but what about the stories of the women? In The Silence of the Girls\, Pat Barker imagines The Iliad from the perspective of Briseis\, the former queen awarded to Achilles as a prize of war. Drawing together the feminist focus of her early novels (Union Street\, Blow Your House Down)\, and the mastery of historical war writing in more recent work (The Regeneration Trilogy)\, Pat has produced a fierce reclamation of Briseis’s story. She will be in conversation with author and MLF Patron Kamila Shamsie\, whose latest novel\, Home Fire\, is an acclaimed retelling of the Greek play Antigone. \nThis event will be BSL interpreted
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/pat-barker-silence-girls/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181010T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181010T140000
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SUMMARY:Take Ten With The Writing Squad
DESCRIPTION:You have ten minutes. Ten minutes to go anywhere you like\, with anyone\, in any time – the past\, the future\, in this world\, out of this world – where would you go? Open a book and read yourself there\, pick up a pen and write yourself away. Stay close to home\, enter a different dimension\, go anywhere in between. Come and hear journeys in reading and writing by members of The Writing Squad and the brilliant students they have been working with from Manchester Enterprise Academy\, St Paul’s Catholic High School and Trinity C of E High School. \nThis event is supported by Read Manchester\, the Granada Foundation and Manchester Guardian Society Charitable Trust. \n \nTickets are free but booking is advised \n(Donations welcome on the door)
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/take-ten-writing-squad/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181010T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181010T210000
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SUMMARY:Mohammed Hanif in Conversation 
DESCRIPTION:Q: What do an American pilot who’s crashed in the desert\, a teenager full of money-making schemes\, and a dog suffering through a very bad day have in common? A: They all narrate the new\, hilariously funny novel\, Red Birds\, by acclaimed author Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes). Through the inhabitants of the refugee camp that Major Ellie was supposed to bomb\, Mohammed looks at the absurdity of war\, specifically considering the tensions between America and the Muslim world. As fifteen-year-old Momo says about the Families Rehabilitation Programme\, ‘First they bomb us from the skies\, then they work hard to cure our stress’. A journalist\, author and playwright\, Mohammed was recently awarded the third-highest civilian award of Pakistan\, the Sitara-e-Imtiaz. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/mohammed-hanif-conversation/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T210000
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SUMMARY:Carol Ann Duffy\, Suzanne Batty & Clare Shaw
DESCRIPTION:Come and celebrate the launch of three of the most anticipated and emotionally charged poetry books of the year. Carol Ann Duffy’s final collection as Poet Laureate\, Sincerity\, is a frank\, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Carol Ann has received numerous awards for her candid and heartfelt poetry\, including the Whitbread\, Forward\, T S Eliot and PEN Pinter Prizes. Suzanne Batty transforms mental anguish into things of anarchic and sensual beauty in her second full-length collection\, States of Happiness\, featuring a sequence of poems written in memory of her twin sister\, who died of a rare degenerative disease. Clare Shaw’s third collection\, Flood\, offers an eye-witness account of living through the 2015 flooding of her home town Hebden Bridge\, interwoven with more intimate poems chronicling the breakdown of a relationship – themes of loss\, destruction and recovery are explored in a language as dangerous and sustaining as water.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/carol-ann-duffy-suzanne-batty-clare-shaw/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
DESCRIPTION:You have to see it to be it\, so the saying goes. But Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené were struggling to find awe-inspiring\, amazing and relatable black British female role models\, because society rarely permits these women to be seen and heard. To remedy this\, they wrote Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible\, bringing together the voices and experiences of Black British women in a range of fields\, including broadcasting\, vlogging\, athletics\, music\, acting\, publishing\, public relations\, fashion\, beauty and law. A Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4\, Slay in Your Lane has received excellent reviews everywhere from The Observer to Stylist and has been called ‘The Must-Read Book empowering young black women’ by Vogue. Yomi and Elizabeth are here to empower and inspire you with some Black Girl Magic. Hosted by Gemma Cairney\, award-winning Radio and Television presenter\, broadcaster\, activist and author of OPEN: A Toolkit For How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be. \n \n 
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/slay-lane-black-girl-bible/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181014T153000
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SUMMARY:Graham Caveney & Howard Cunnell with Julie Hesmondhalgh
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a man and how is that shaped by adolescence? In his memoir\, The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness\, Graham Caveney details his upbringing as a working-class boy in Accrington. His world is changed by the discovery of literature\, music and his acceptance to the local Catholic grammar school. At the latter\, Graham is abused by the head teacher\, and the repercussions affect the rest of his life. In Fathers and Sons\, Howard Cunnell looks at the absence of his father and his relationship with his own children\, particularly his transgender son. Both writers consider the ways in which men mask their emotions\, and the damage this causes. Graham and Howard will be in conversation with actor Julie Hesmondhalgh.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/graham-caveney-howard-cunnell-julie-hesmondhalgh/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181014T160000
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SUMMARY:Wally Funk’s Race for Space: Wally Funk & Sue Nelson
DESCRIPTION:In 1961\, Wally Funk was one of the Mercury 13\, the first group of American pilots to pass the ‘Woman in Space’ programme. Her scores in the rigorous mental and physical tests beat many of the male candidates\, including John Glenn\, the first American to go into orbit. But just one week before Wally was due to enter the final phase of training\, the programme was cancelled and none of the Mercury 13 ever flew into space. Undeterred\, Wally went on to become one of America’s first female aviation inspectors and civilian flight instructors\, but still dreams of becoming an astronaut. The author of Wally Funk’s Race for Space\, Sue Nelson is a broadcaster that presents and co-produces the award-winning Space Boffins podcast. Her documentary Women with the Right Stuff was one of the BBC World Service’s most-listened-to podcasts. Sue and Wally will be in conversation with Dr Teresa Anderson\, Director at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/wally-funks-race-space-wally-funk-sue-nelson/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Patrick Gale in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:A firm Festival favourite\, Patrick Gale is the author of eighteen novels\, including the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes from an Exhibition\, Rough Music and the Costa-shortlisted A Place Called Winter. His new novel\, Take Nothing With You\, tells the story of Eustace as he looks back at the childhood cello lessons that transformed his life. While they allow him the freedom to explore his sexuality outside of his stifling home\, he’s oblivious to the effect they’re also having on his mother\, and the terrible consequences that will follow. We’re thrilled to welcome Patrick to read from and discuss his latest novel with author and MLF Patron Erica Wagner. \nThis event will be BSL interpreted
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/patrick-gale-conversation/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181018T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181018T210000
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SUMMARY:Repeal the 8th with Tara Flynn\, Sinéad Gleeson & Una Mullally
DESCRIPTION:Irish women saw a historic victory for their reproductive rights with the repeal of the Eighth Amendment in May 2018. The campaign that preceded it was a grassroots movement led by Irish feminists\, who opened up a national conversation by sharing their own stories around abortion. Journalist and editor Una Mullally collected some of the literature\, poetry\, journalism and art that the movement produced and inspired\, for the timely Repeal the 8th anthology published this summer. Una and other contributors to the book\, including prominent Irish broadcaster and author Sinéad Gleeson and actor\, playwright\, comedian and author Tara Flynn\, will discuss the #Repealthe8th and #Together4Yes campaigns\, the battle over women’s bodies\, and the next steps for women’s rights alongside the rise of the #MeToo movement.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/repeal-8th-tara-flynn-sinead-gleeson-una-mullally/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181019T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181019T220000
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SUMMARY:Terrance Hayes: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
DESCRIPTION:MLF is delighted to welcome one of America’s most exciting and innovative poets\, Terrance Hayes – winner of the 2010 National Book Award\, and a recipient of a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’. Terrance will be performing work from his new collection\, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Written during the first 200 days of the Trump administration\, it is a 70-poem roller-coaster ride through politics\, music\, life and love; shot through with the vernacular energy of popular culture. Compassionate\, witty\, melancholy\, and rhythmically compelling\, American Sonnets shines a blistering spotlight on the dividing lines of race\, gender and political oppression\, which define the early 21st century. ‘Something happens everywhere in this country\,’ Terrance writes. ‘Every day. Someone is praying\, someone is prey.’ Join us for what promises to be an extraordinary evening of poetry and conversation. Hosted by Kayo Chingonyi\, winner of the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/terrance-hayes-american-sonnets-past-future-assassin/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T193000
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SUMMARY:Ghana and its Contemporary Global Relations with Professor Adams Bodomo
DESCRIPTION:In this evening session Professor Adams Bodomo\, Head of African Studies at the University of Vienna\, discusses Ghana’s contemporary position in global politics and international relations.  Starting with a brief history of Ghana since its establishment as a new nation in 1957\, Professor Bodomo will outline the country’s socio-political\, socio-economic\, and socio-cultural context before focusing on the Ghana’s contemporary global relations. He will consider government-to-government relations with world bodies and regions\, such as Europe and the West\, China and Asia\, and the Caribbean islands nations\, as well as people-to-people relations across the many diasporic populations in major cities like London and Manchester. \nProf. Dr. Adams Bodomo\, a native of Ghana\, is professor of African studies at the University of Vienna\, Austria. He is the author of over 10 books and over a 100 journal articles and book chapters. Two of his most recent book publications are Africans in China (Cambria Press\, 2012) and The Globalization of Foreign Investment in Africa: The Role of Europe\, China and India (Emerald Publishing\, 2017). The research presented in this talk is part of the speaker’s next book project titled ‘Africa and its Global Relations’.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/ghana-and-its-contemporary-global-relations-with-professor-adams-bodomo/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181028T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181028T160000
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SUMMARY:Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
DESCRIPTION:Join two New York Times bestselling authors at this exclusive event when they will be talking about their long awaited collaborative book\, What If It’s Us – a stunning new novel about two boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together or pulling them apart. The event will be chaired by Youtube book blogger\, Lucy Richardson (AKA: The Book Belle). \nBecky Albertalli is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love Simon)\, The Upside of Unrequited\, and Leah on the Offbeat. Becky is a Former clinical psychologist who specialized in working with children and teens. \nAdam Silvera has worked in the publishing industry as a bookseller\, marketing assistant and book reviewer. His novels include More Happy Than Not\, History is All You Left Me and They Both Die At The End. \nAll authors will be signing books after the event. \nTickets: £14.00\, includes entry and a copy of What If It’s Us plus an exclusive poster\nor £6 general admission. Subject to booking fees. \nTerms & conditions: \nAnyone under the age of 14 years must be accompanied by an adult. Due to limited seating allocation at this venue accompanying adults would need to require a ticket to this event.\nEach ticket entitles the ticket holder to one seat at this event and then one place in line to have books signed by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera\nIf you purchase a ticket including the book\, you will receive the book at the venue\nAlong with the book purchased with the ticket one additional copy of both Becky and Adam’s books are permitted to be brought from home or purchased on the day to be signed. Each author will sign two books per ticket holder.\nDue to the anticipated high turnout of the event\, dedications within the books are only guaranteed for one copy of What if It’s Us per ticket holder.\nThere will be the opportunity to have a photo taken with Becky and Adam – this will be assisted due to time constraints and there will be strictly no selfies.\nStaff will be on hand to take your camera/phone to get a photo of you with Becky and Adam whilst they sign your books. There will not be an official photographer present at the event.\nDue to time limitations there will only be one photo with Becky and Adam per ticket holder.\nIf you have any questions please contact events@waterstones.com \n 
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/becky-albertalli-adam-silvera/
LOCATION:Performance Space
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