‘The most subversive thing is to read’ Percival Everett at MLF
I don’t know if it’s just me but, six months ago I’d never heard of Percival Everett....
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Tag: Manchester Literature Festival
Poetry and Scones at The Midland
Among the plethora of festivals that Manchester now hosts and boasts, the Literature Festival is neither as loud as the International Festival nor as beery as the Food and Drink Festival. It does not possess the quiet cool of...
Read MoreThe Manchester Man
There’s a street in the heart of Manchester called ‘Scotland’. Just ‘Scotland’. Not Scotland Road, Scotland Street or Scotland Avenue. Where are you going? Oh, I’m going to Scotland,...
Read MoreThe Beautiful Game
Author David Peace now resides in Japan but the Huddersfield-born, former Manchester resident and graduate from Manchester Polytechnic (now MMU) is thrilled to be back to promote his novel about the late, great Bill Shankly, Red...
Read MoreScandi Crime Fiction Comes To Manchester
Jo Nesbø strides into a packed Manchester Town Hall Banqueting room looking as cool as the Johnny Cash of crime writing. As well he might – not only was he a bona-fide rock star before he started writing the Harry Hole books...
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