Events
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BooksManchester Literature Festival: Stories from Korea
This year's Manchester Literature Festival hosts two writers from the Korean peninsula: Sungju Lee, whose memoir Every Falling Star relates his experiences a... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
BooksBook Week Scotland announce 2016 events
Alexander McCall Smith, Liz Lochhead, Will Self and Jodi Picoult are among the big names taking part in this year’s Book Week Scotland Read more »| 05 Oct 2016 -
BooksFrom pulp to corsets: lesbian literary stereotypes
Vita Sackville-West was a writer who happily shunted the boundaries of literary form, along with the imposed norms of gender and sexuality. As her granddaugh... Read more »| 30 Sep 2016 -
Festivals
Five to see at Manchester Literature Festival
There's lots to see at this year's Manchester Literature Festival, but if we had to whittle down our highlights, here are the five events we'd pick Olivia L... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
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Graphic Content: Thought Bubble 2016
Comics fans will gather in Leeds in November for the tenth anniversary of Thought Bubble festival – the UK’s biggest celebration of sequential ar... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
FestivalsLiterature festivals in the North this autumn
If the last few months were all about #summerreads, autumn is the season of the literature festival – and the North has some pretty major ones. Here's our guide Read more »| 06 Sep 2016
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Why Are Economists Topping the Non-Fiction Charts?
This year’s Manchester Literature Festival has a good number of events looking at economic ideas and how they shape us, from Yuval Noah Harari speaking... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
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Agnes Török & Chimwemwe Undi: Speaking with Feeling
The best and worst problem for a reviewer to have is this: the best kind of event will not let itself be neatly described in 300 words. Some things you canno... Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
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Laura Bates: A Manifesto for Empowered Women
Did you know that more men are sitting in Westminster right now than there have been female MPs in the entirety of British history? And that in our country, ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
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Edinburgh Book Festival: Helen Mort & Claire Askew
'You’re imagining her life… but you’re miles off.' Playful, self-referencing and blunt: these lines from Claire Askew’s poem Picker ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2016 -
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Ian McEwan at Leggendo Metropolitano
Ahead of the publication of his latest book this autumn, Ian McEwan offers his take on the role of virtue and fortune in literature. His novels teem with qu... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
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Literary event highlights in the North: June 2016
There's something for everyone in this month's roundup of literary events and readings across the North – whether you're interested in the backstr... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
Zygmunt Bauman at Leggendo Metropolitano
We popped to Italy for the International Festival of Literature Leggendo Metropolitano 2016, and found Zygmunt Bauman musing on the nature of happiness. Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Books
Fighting Prejudice on the Page: Women in Comics
The illustrated world is maligned for its depiction of women on the page. Ahead of her appearance at Glasgow Comic Con, celebrated comic author and artist Kate Leth explains what's changing and why Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
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Northwest Book Highlights – May 2016
This month we mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and the Northwest plays host to a whole load of festivals, including Manchester After Hours,... Read more »| 04 May 2016