Articles relating to: Manchester Literature Festival
Review: Alan Hollinghurst, Manchester Literature Festival
Life as a fan of Alan Hollinghurst is a game of patience. You have to wait a good few years for the next fix to come along – but it’s worth it.
Read the full story..Review: Outsiders – Five Women Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon, Manchester Literature Festival
I’m tired of being told what a woman should and shouldn’t say.
Read the full story..Review: A Woman’s Work, Harriet Harman, Manchester Literature Festival
What do breakfast kippers, a curry and a book about law all have in common?
Read the full story..Review: Set the Boy Free by Johnny Marr, Manchester Literature Festival
There’s a bit of armchair psychology which often gets trotted out on the subject of great musicians.
Read the full story..Vera, Shetland and the North: Ann Cleeves talks to Northern Soul
“She’s driving from her home towards Newcastle but that’s the Holy Island causeway and that clearly isn’t right.”
Read the full story..The Northern Soul Podcast: Manchester Literature Festival
Ah, the Manchester Literature Festival. It’s proper good.
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Read the full story..Children’s illustrator and author Nick Sharratt talks to Northern Soul
It’s not every day you chat to someone who has sold 40 million books.
Read the full story..Northern Soul goes on a bear hunt with Michael Rosen
As a beloved writer, poet and broadcaster, Michael Rosen has more going on in his head than most.
Read the full story..“If you avoid serious subjects, comedy isn’t funny” Henry Normal talks to Northern Soul
He promises poems about “death, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers”. As pitches go for a literature event hoping to put bums on seats, it’s not your run of the mill promotion. But Henry Normal isn’t your conventional fella.
Read the full story..Review: Louis de Bernières, Manchester Literature Festival
I have some inexplicable form of amnesia when it comes to Manchester’s Portico Library and Gallery.
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