Monica Ali
Performance SpaceThe 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, […]
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Nihal Arthanayake: Let’s Talk
Performance SpaceAward-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 […]
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From Millworkers to Millennials: Jean Hobson
First Floor Exhibition HallFrom Millworkers to Millennials: paintings, drawings and screen prints by Jean Hobson When Jean Hobson started drawing Manchester’s old buildings in 2007, she did not realise she was charting a […]
Little Reads Family Day
Performance SpaceLooking for a fun way to introduce children to important environmental issues? Sarah Roberts, author of the acclaimed Somebody Swallowed Stanley, will be sharing her latest beautifully illustrated book Somebody Woke Wilson. […]
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Nick Hornby: Dickens & Prince
Performance SpaceAt 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 […]
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After Sylvia
Performance SpaceWith Moniza Alvi, Romalyn Ante, Rebecca Goss, Ian Humphreys & Carola Luther One of the most dynamic and admired American writers of the 20th Century, Sylvia Plath’s legacy as a […]
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Mariana Enriquez & Max Porter in Conversation
Performance Space‘“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, […]
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creative:connection
Performance SpaceWe are delighted to partner with the award-winning charity Create once again. The creative:connection project brings together disabled and non-disabled children to create, build connections and break down barriers. Children […]
Susanna Clarke & Max Porter in Conversation
Performance SpacePiranesi 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 […]
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Natalie Haynes
Performance SpaceStone 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 […]
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George Saunders in Conversation
Performance Space‘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 […]
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Word Central
Performance SpaceWord Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word presented by Manchester Libraries and Flapjack Press Tues 25th October, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (doors open 5.30pm) Free entry Hosted by Tony Curry […]
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