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10th Oct

18:30

Colm Tóibín In Conversation with Alan Hollinghurst

11th Oct

19:00

Manchester Sermon with Andrew Motion

12th Oct

13:00

All Write! Celebration

14:00

HSBC Premier Literary Tour

13th Oct

17:00

Michael Frayn

19:30

Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens

14th Oct

13:00

Marilyn Heward Mills

14:00

HSBC Premier Literary Tour

18:00

Roma Tearne

18:30

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez

19:30

Commonword Poetry Factor

19:30

Manchester Fiction Prize Gala

19:30

Of Ink and Light

21:30

Flow!

15th Oct

11:00

Anthony Burgess Tour

11:00

Julie Bertagna & Midland Future Manchester Competition

12:00

Family Storytelling: Margaret Ryan

13:30

War Stories: Michelle Green & Zoe Lambert

16:00

Allan Stratton: Life, Above All

16:00

HSBC Premier Literary Tour

18:00

Emma Jane Unsworth & John Niven

18:30

Jonathan Meades

19:30

Portrait of Music & Words: Manchester Camerata & Michael Symmons Roberts

16th Oct

12:00

Scrum! with Tom Palmer

13:00

Tahmima Anam & Dipika Rai

14:30

Kishwar Desai & Moni Mohsin

16:00

HSBC Premier Literary Tour

19:30

Sacred Hearts

17th Oct

13:00

Hallie Rubenhold

18:00

Navtej Sarna & Shrabani Basu: Pages from History

18:30

Sean O'Brien & John McAuliffe

19:30

Crime in a Cold Climate

18th Oct

14:00

Cathedral Poetry Prize

18:00

European Short Stories: Bjarte Breiteig & Thijs de Boer

18:00

Ford Madox Brown: Image to Word with Jean Sprackland

19:00

Face 2 Face with Stephen Butchard

19:30

Prize Culture?

19th Oct

13:00

Literary Reputations: Kathleen Jones on Katherine Mansfield

13:00

Tour of the Midland Hotel with Barbara Frost

15:00

Afternoon Tea with Patricia Duncker

16:00

HSBC Premier Literary Tour

18:00

Latvian & Macedonian Poetry

18:30

Sisterwives: Rachel Connor & Womanswrite

19:00

Manchester Blog Awards

19:30

Antonia Fraser on Harold Pinter

20th Oct

13:00

Poems of the City Guided Walk

18:00

Mimi Khalvati & Carola Luther

18:30

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

19:30

Not Many Love Poems: A Tribute to Linda Chase

19:30

Superheroes of Slam Final

21st Oct

10:30

Children's Bookshow with Kevin Crossley-Holland

13:00

Poetry from The North

14:00

HSBC Premier Literary Tour

18:00

European Poetry Night: Ágnes Lehóczky, Marcelijus Martinaitis & Toon Tellegen

19:30

David Lodge

19:30

The Men Pomes: Gerry Potter

22nd Oct

10:30

Poetry Business Workshop

11:30

Poetry Takeaway

12:00

Family Storytelling: Toon Tellegen

12:30

Words on Asylum & Refuge

13:00

The Devil's Garden: Edward Docx & Johan Oldekop

14:00

HSBC Premier Literary Tour

14:30

Sam Willetts with Glenn Sharp & Chico Pere

15:30

Writing Freedom: The Story of English PEN

17:00

Boho Literary Pub Walk

18:00

Catherine O'Flynn

18:00

The Mind Has Fuses: A Celebration of BS Johnson

19:30

Jean 'Binta' Breeze

23rd Oct

13:00

International Prize for Arabic Fiction Discussion

14:00

Alan Turing & Morphogenesis: Jane Rogers & Martyn Amos

16:30

Zhu Wen in Conversation with Julia Lovell

17:00

Francesca Simon

19:30

Literary Quiz with James Walton

24th Oct

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2nd Nov

3rd Nov

19:00

Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes

4th Nov

5th Nov

6th Nov

19:30

Close up with Jeffrey Eugenides