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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 […]

Heather Morris: Cilka’s Journey

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘She was the bravest person I ever met’ – Lale Sokolov. Heather […]

£8

It’s Not About the Burqa

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents... Raifa Rafiq, Salma El-Wardany, Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied & Afshan D’souza Lodhi In 2016, former Prime Minster, David Cameron, said he considered Muslim women to be traditionally […]

£8

Jackie Kay Presents

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents... Exceptional times call for exceptional writers. Scottish Makar, poet, and novelist Jackie Kay introduces her selection of ten of the most exciting BAME (black, Asian and […]

£8

She Kreativ

Performance Space

European expat women share their experience of being a woman, an immigrant, and a business leader in creative industries. We will welcome 4 European expat women who run a creative […]

A morning with Jacqueline Wilson

Performance Space

SORRY, THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. Join us for this very special event with best-selling author Jacqueline Wilson. Celebrating publication of her new book, We Are The Beaker Girls, […]

£14.50

Living Library

Media Lounge

A campaign that aims to change the record on ageing - Talking About My Generation - hosts people aged 50 and over, from different walks of life, who will share […]