Past events
Manchester Literature Festival 2024 poetry reading with Gillian Clarke
‘Clarke has a direct line to the natural world. She paints the Welsh landscape without idealising...
MLF 2024: An Evening with Meera Sodha
‘The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to become yo...
MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thoma...
Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a...
Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead....
Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed coun...
MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day...
SCAFFOLDING and THE ORANGE ROOM: Lauren Elkin & Rosie Price in conversation
We're delighted to be hosting the Manchester launch of Lauren Elkin's SCAFFOLDING and Rosie Price's...
Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)
Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve st...
Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)
Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve st...