Talks

Manchester Literature Festival brings another blockbuster programme of events to Library Live at Central Library this October. The Festival will be showcasing over 120 authors, poets, and thinkers from across […]

An afternoon exploring the supernatural with writers Jenn Ashworth, David Gaffney, Beth Barker and Nicholas Royle – four contributors to Brutalist Ghost Stories, a haunting new anthology inspired by Britain’s post-war architecture.   Blending literary fiction with the uncanny, […]

An inspiring conversation with acclaimed author and campaigner Natasha Walter about building a more connected and hopeful future.   Drawing on her powerful and urgent new book Feminism for a World on Fire, Natasha explores […]

The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage returns to present his exhilarating new verse translation of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest and most compelling, surviving works of literature. Originating in ancient […]