What's on

Elif Shafak

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Does anyone care about a sex worker, murdered and abandoned in a […]

£8

Dashehra Diwali Celebration

Visit Central Library during the afternoon to start the celebrations off with performances, crafts and much more. Free for everyone. No need to book just drop in.

Deborah Levy

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘You are history.’ In her stunning new novel, The Man Who Saw […]

£10

Jung Chang

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country’. International […]

£10

Howard Jacobson

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Is it possible to find love in your nineties? In Howard Jacobson’s […]

£10

Deborah Moggach

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               In her witty and poignant new novel, The Carer, much loved novelist […]

£8

creative:connection

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               In partnership with Create, disabled and non-disabled students from Chatsworth High School […]

Down and Out in Scotland

Meeting Room 1

Dr Chris Paton explores some of the areas of ancestral hardship, to allow us to truly understand the situations that our forebears had to endure and overcome. An Anglo-Scottish Family […]

Family Reading Day

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Join us for a day of fictional fun! Enjoy FREE arts and […]

Roving Robots Coding Workshop

Media Lounge

Do you want to learn how to code? Come along to our new series of coding workshops for all. Families, adults, grandparents, in fact anyone aged 8 years and above […]