Articles relating to: Manchester Literature Festival
Review: Nick Hornby, Manchester Literature Festival
Nick Hornby’s pedigree is a little intimidating.
Read the full story..Review: Angela Davis in conversation with Jackie Kay, Manchester Literature Festival
One of my favourite annual events is the Manchester Literature Festival (MLF) which has been a calendar staple since I moved to the city in the noughties.
Read the full story..Review: Eimear McBride, Martin Harris Centre, Manchester
The novels of Eimear McBride, you might say, begin where she once was – enduring the loss of a brother to a brain tumour, studying drama in London.
Read the full story..Review: The Forgotten Women of Bauhaus, Naomi Wood, Manchester Literature Festival
When it comes to novels, there’s an art to research.
Read the full story..Review: Brett Anderson, Manchester Literature Festival, The Dancehouse
Suede doesn’t fit the story.
Read the full story..Review: Jessica Andrews and Helen Mort, Manchester Literature Festival, International Anthony Burgess Foundation
When I was a creative writing student, I was encouraged to ‘write what you know’.
Read the full story..Review: Neil Tennant in conversation with Andrew McMillan, Manchester Literature Festival, RNCM
For Neil Tennant, it’s been a pop life. From writing pop into his personality, to writing his personality inextricably into pop, music has been at the heart of his biography.
Read the full story..Review: Kate Atkinson, Manchester Literature Festival
I’m a binge-reader. I used to be someone who hovered over books slowly, drinking them in, pondering, possibly having a really good sniff of the spine.
Read the full story..Review: Jo Brand, Manchester Literature Festival
As a student in the early 90s, I spent three summers working in the Edinburgh Fringe box office.
Read the full story..Review – A Celebration of Muriel Spark: Jackie Kay, Alan Taylor & Louise Welsh, Manchester Literature Festival
It’s cosily disorientating.
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