Jeanette Winterson & Mark O’Connell
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL ‘How did we get here? Where might we go?’ Is the future ‘a screen onto which we project our fantasies and terrors’? What can the past tell […]
£10 – £12
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Monique Roffey & Ingrid Persaud
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL ‘Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, […]
£10 – £12
Elif Shafak in Conversation
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL A fig tree with a tale to tell; a grieving teenage girl who wants to know her family’s story; two sets of lovers hiding from society. In […]
£8 – £10
An Evening with Alan Johnson
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL Much-loved former Labour MP Alan Johnson makes a welcome return to MLF. Following his series of successful memoirs – This Boy, In My Life, The Long and Winding Road and Please, Mr Postman, […]
£10 – £12
Black Britain Writing Back: Bernardine Evaristo
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL Celebrating a landmark new series curated by Booker Prize winning writer Bernardine Evaristo, Black Britain Writing Back re-introduces lost or hard-to-find books by Black writers who wrote […]
£6 – £8
#Like Chopin – Mysterious Story in Manchester
Henry Watson Music Library#LikeChopin – The Mysterious Story of Chopin in Manchester In August 1848 Fryderyk Chopin travelled to Britain. During the visit he also gave a performance in Manchester. The concert […]
Spanish-Language Stories: Mateo García Elizondo, Valerie Miles & Cristina Morales
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL Granta’s second selection of Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists showcases the work of 25 of the most exciting writers in the Spanish-speaking world. Valerie Miles, editor, writer, translator, […]
An Evening with Colm Tóibín
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL ‘I can make no sense of the present. It is all confusion. I know nothing about the future.’ In his extraordinary new novel, The Magician, Colm Tóibín conjures […]
£12
Little Reads Family Day with Chris Haughton & Daishu Ma
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL Chris Haughton & Daishu Ma 10.00 – 10.45 Music & Drama Family Workshop 11.15 – 12.15 We are delighted to present a very special in person event […]
£5
Superheroes: Inspiring Stories of Secret Strength
Performance SpaceMANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL What do you want to be when you grow up? Curated by Stormzy and the #Merky Books team, Superheroes is a new children’s book celebrating modern day heroes from […]
£5
CANCELLED: Malika Booker, Vahni Capildeo & Jason Allen-Paisant
Performance SpaceDue to unforeseen circumstances this Manchester Literature Festival event is cancelled Join us for an afternoon with three fabulous, inventive poets who raise questions about our relationships with language, landscape […]
£8
Venture Arts Presents – Completely A Hustling Place
First Floor Exhibition HallVenture Arts Presents Full Studio Show - Completely A Hustling Place – With Work From 70 Artists This autumn, one of Manchester’s leading visual art studios, Venture Arts, which supports […]
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