Tickets for most festival events can be booked via our ticket agents, Quay Tickets, by phoning the main box office number: 0843 208 0500 or via their website. You can also book online by following the links in our Calendar or Events listings.

When you book directly through our main box office, you won't have to pay any additional booking fee on your tickets. The only cost on top of the ticket price is £1.25 postage per order.

Tickets for the following events must be booked directly through the venue.

Tickets will also be available on the door for most events, subject to availability - please keep checking the website for updates.

The following events are now sold out:

Afternoon Tea with Sue MacGregor
Claire Tomalin
War Stories
Jonathan Meades
Crime in a Cold Climate
Ford Madox Brown: Image to Word
Literary Reputations
Afternoon Tea with Patricia Duncker and Pre Tour
Antonia Fraser
Poems of the City: Guided Walk
Not Many Love Poems - a tribute to Linda Chase
David Lodge
Poetry Business Workshop
Alan Turing & Morphogenesis

Many of our events are free or heavily subsidised with the aim of making the Festival accessible to audiences on low incomes. If you are fortunate enough to have some spare cash, and believe the Festival offers you good value for money, or would simply like to support our continued good work, then please consider making a donation.

If you are part of a reading group or want to arrange a night out with a group of book-loving friends, then you might want to take advantage of our special MLF Reading Group Ticket Offer.

The offer: Book for four or more people and get all your tickets at the concessionary rate. The offer is available on the following events and can be booked online or by phoning our Box Office on 0843 208 0500 and quoting MLF Reading Group Offer at the time of booking.

Manchester Sermon – Manchester Cathedral, Tuesday 11th October, 7pm
Michael Frayn – Manchester Town Hall, Thursday 13th October, 5pm
Roma Tearne – International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Friday 14th October, 6pm
Emma Jane Unsworth & John Niven – Waterstone’s Deansgate, Saturday 15th October, 6pm
Sacred Hearts – Manchester Cathedral, Sunday 16th October, 7.30pm
Navtej Sarna & Shrabani Basu – Waterstone’s Deansgate, Monday 17th October, 6pm
Mimi Khalvati & Carola Luther – International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Thursday 20th October, 6pm
David Lodge – Whitworth Art Gallery, Friday 21st October, 7.30pm
The Devil’s Garden – Manchester Museum, Saturday 22nd October, 1pm
Catherine O’Flynn – Waterstone’s Deasngate, Saturday 22nd October, 6pm