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SUMMARY:Kit de Waal
DESCRIPTION:‘I live with the dread that one day when my young muscles rebel\, can take no more stillness and the brutal confinement of my very self\, I will stand and strip naked and burst out of my skin.’ Without Warning and Only Sometimes is Kit de Waal’s memoir of a childhood of opposites and extremes. Raised in Moseley\, Birmingham\, with her siblings\, food was scarce. Their Irish mother worked multiple jobs and believed the world would end in 1975. Their Caribbean father’s paradise was home – St Kitts – and when he wasn’t splurging on fancy clothes and a car\, he was saving to build his dream house there. Eventually teenage Kit found a route that led to her becoming an award-winning writer. \nKit is the author of three previous books. My Name Is Leon won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the year\, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and has been adapted for TV by Lenny Henry’s production company. The Trick to Time was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Hosted by broadcaster and Literary Editor Ellah P. Wakatama. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. \n\nTickets £10 / £8. Book on 0343 208 0500 or via ‘Book Now’ link below \n\n\n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/kit-de-waal/
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SUMMARY:Paterson Joseph in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:It’s 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man\, especially one who has escaped slavery. So how does Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the King\, write and play highly acclaimed music\, become the first Black person to vote in Britain and lead the fight to end slavery? In his captivating debut novel\, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho\, much-loved actor Paterson Joseph tells a story hidden for 300 years. An attempt ‘to correct the colour-balance that has allowed an historical distortion of British history to exist’ and ‘to add to the growing canon of Black Historical Fiction’ as entertaining as any of the revered classics. \nA star of stage and screen\, Paterson is best known for his roles in Casualty\, Peep Show and Green Wing amongst many others. He recently appeared in the BBC series Vigil and as Kamal Hadley in the adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts + Crosses. Hosted by broadcaster and Literary Editor Ellah P. Wakatama. \nTickets £12 / £10. Book on 0343 208 0500 or via ‘Book Now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/paterson-joseph-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Damon Galgut in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:One family\, four decades\, four funerals\, one unfulfilled promise. Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize\, Damon Galgut joins us to discuss his masterpiece The Promise\, a gripping\, beautifully written family saga based around a farm in South Africa. Through the members of the Swart family\, Damon explores personal and political change as the family splinters and apartheid ends\, questioning whether reparations for Black South Africans can ever be sufficient. The Promise was a Book of the Year in The Guardian\, The Observer\, The Daily Telegraph\, The Sunday Times and the New Statesman. Author of nine novels and four plays\, Damon was previously twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize with The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room. Hosted by broadcaster and Observer critic Alex Clark and presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. \nThis event will be BSL interpreted \nTickets £12 / £10. Book on 0343 208 0500 or via ‘Book Now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/damon-galgut%e2%80%afin-conversation/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Monica Ali
DESCRIPTION:The bestselling and much-loved author of Brick Lane\, Monica Ali visits MLF to celebrate her brilliant new novel Love Marriage\, her first book in a decade. Yasmin’s engaged to fellow Junior Doctor Joe\, but when they bring the two families together – one love-matched\, long-married Bengali immigrants who thrive on home cooking and the other a single white middle-class feminist academic writing on porn who gets the caterers in for parties – cracks appear in everyone’s lives and stories that have long been told have to be rewritten with significant consequences. \nMonica Ali is the author of five novels which have been translated into 26 languages. Her debut\, Brick Lane\, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and led to her being chosen as one of Granta’s 2003 Best of Young British Novelists. A television adaptation of Love Marriage is in development. \nTickets £12 / £10. Book on 0343 208 0500
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/monica-ali/
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SUMMARY:Nihal Arthanayake: Let’s Talk
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning BBC broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake brings a defibrillator to our ailing ability to connect through conversation. In Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations\, Nihal considers what’s happened to discourse\, both public and private\, over recent years. How Brexit\, lockdown and social media have led to division\, monologues\, and a lack of in-person discussions. Through skills honed by his career on radio and\, ultimately\, the beauty of connection shown to him by his mother\, Nihal shares with us all how we can become better conversationalists\, bridge divides\, and become less lonely. \nNihal has built a platform of 1.2 million listeners a week on BBC Radio 5 Live who regard him as one of the best people of his generation at having public conversations. He is the winner of two Sony Gold Awards\, a BBC Radio and Music Award for Interview of the Year and was inducted into the Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame in his 40s. Hosted by poet and writer Andrew McMillan. \nTickets £10 / £8.  Book on 0343 208 0500
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/nihal-arthanayake-lets-talk/
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SUMMARY:Nick Hornby: Dickens & Prince
DESCRIPTION:At first glance\, it seems unlikely that the white English Victorian writer Charles Dickens and the Black American musician Prince Rogers Nelson have anything in common. But as two of Nick Hornby’s ‘artists who have shaped me\, inspired me\, made me think about my own work’ he set out to see whether there was anything he could learn from these two great artists and their prolific bodies of work. What did they do with their phenomenal talent? Did it damage them in some way\, personally\, professionally? Is there any way of knowing where it came from? Did it kill them? \nWith wit\, curiosity and deep admiration Nick Hornby traces their extraordinary lives – from their difficult beginnings to the women they fell for to their limitless energy for work\, to their money and the movies – and brilliantly illuminates their very particular kind of genius. Come along and find out more. Nick is the bestselling author of eight novels including Just Like You\, High Fidelity and About a Boy and several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch. He has also written several award-winning screenplays including Brooklyn\, Wild and State of the Union. Nick will be in conversation with broadcaster and Observer critic Alex Clark. This event is sponsored by Weightmans. \nBook on 0343 208 0500 or ‘book now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/nick-hornby-dickens-prince/
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SUMMARY:After Sylvia
DESCRIPTION:With Moniza Alvi\, Romalyn Ante\, Rebecca Goss\, Ian Humphreys & Carola Luther\nOne of the most dynamic and admired American writers of the 20th Century\, Sylvia Plath’s legacy as a fiercely intelligent\, confessional feminist poet and novelist continues to inspire generation after generation. After Sylvia: Poems & Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath marks the 90th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth. At this special event\, poets Moniza Alvi\, Romalyn Ante\, Rebecca Goss\, Ian Humphreys & Carola Luther will perform new work inspired by and responding to Sylvia Plath’s work and legacy\, drawing on the themes of Rebirth\, Womanhood\, Magic\, Mothers & Fathers and Nature. \nMoniza Alvi has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize three times with her collections The Country at My Shoulder\, Europa and At the Time of Partition. Romalyn Ante is the author of Antiemetic for Homesickness which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Rebecca Goss is the author of four poetry collections. Her Birth was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection. She is winner of the Sylvia Plath Prize 2022.  Carola Luther is the author of three poetry collections. Her most recent collection On the Way to Jerusalem Farm is shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Ian Humphreys is a writer and editor. His debut collection Zebra was nominated for the Portico Prize and his work has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry. He is the producer and co-editor of After Sylvia. \nPresented in partnership with Manchester Poetry Library. \nThis event will be BSL interpreted \nBook on 0343 208 0500 or ‘book now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/after-sylvia/
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SUMMARY:Mariana Enriquez & Max Porter in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:‘“Is it true?” Gaspar had asked. “Is it true that the dead travel fast?” His father had finally looked up and said\, simply: “Some do.”’ Argentinian mistress of dark literature\, Mariana Enriquez joins us in Manchester to discuss her superb\, brutal novel Our Share of Night (translated by Megan McDowell). Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him. For years\, they have exploited his father’s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic\, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed\, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor. The novel spans the brutal decades of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its aftermath\, offering a critique of its rule. \nMariana is the author of the short story collections Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (also translated by Megan McDowell)\, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Our Share of Night was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela. Mariana will be in conversation with Max Porter\, award-winning writer of Lanny and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes. \nBook on 0343 208 0500 or ‘book now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/mariana-enriquez-max-porter-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Susanna Clarke & Max Porter in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Piranesi lives in the House. Having no memory of how he arrived or even who he is\, Piranesi keeps careful records of the labyrinth of halls\, the many statues and the weather. Once a week he meets his friend the Other\, but he has no contact with any other living person until someone begins to leave him messages and the possibility arises that this perfectly constructed existence could crumble from within. \nPiranesi won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021\, the Red Tentacle prize at the Kitschies and was declared a Book of the Year in numerous publications. Susanna Clarke’s bestselling debut Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell won the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year\, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. It was turned into an acclaimed BBC television series. Susanna will be in conversation with Max Porter\, award-winning writer of Lanny and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers\, for her only in-person event this Autumn. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. \nBook on 0343 208 0500 or ‘book now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/susanna-clarke-max-porter-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Natalie Haynes
DESCRIPTION:Stone Blind\, Natalie Haynes’ latest feminist mythological retelling\, is the story of how a young woman became a monster. And how she was never really a monster at all. It’s the story of Medusa\, the mortal raised by her Gorgon sisters\, mistreated by Poseidon\, and hunted by Perseus. It’s a version that sheds light on who’s really angry\, who’s privileged\, who’s wronged\, who’s content\, and who’s an arrogant brat; turning the story you think you know on its snake covered head. \nNatalie is the author of three previous novels\, The Amber Fury\, shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize; The Children of Jocasta and A Thousand Ships\, and non-fiction books The Ancient Guide to Modern Life and Pandora’s Jar. She is the writer and performer of the BBC Radio 4 show\, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015\, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. Hosted by Naomi Frisby\, writer and co-host of Late To It podcast. \nBook on 0343 208 0500 or ‘book now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/natalie-haynes/
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CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:George Saunders in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:‘The best short story writer in English – not “one of”\, not “arguably”\, but the best’ – Time. In his latest short story collection\, Liberation Day\, George Saunders considers what it means to be human and a member of communities whose actions impact each other. Through inventive scenarios including an underground amusement park and a household with reprogrammed humans\, George comments on current society\, questioning whether this is the right way to live. Join us for what promises to be an unmissable conversation with a master of short stories on his first visit to the UK in five years\, and his only event outside of London. George is the author of ten books including the Booker Prize winning Lincoln in the Bardo\, Tenth of December and his recent exploration of Russian short stories\, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. Hosted by writer Kate Feld. \nBook on 0343 208 0500 or ‘book now’ link below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/george-saunders-in-conversation/
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