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1st Oct

2nd Oct

10:30

Children's Bookshow: Ulf Stark

3rd Oct

4th Oct

12:00

National Poetry Day Celebrations

5th Oct

12:30

TimeRiders: Alex Scarrow

6th Oct

7th Oct

19:30

Close Up with Michael Chabon

8th Oct

13:00

Northern Debuts

18:00

David Constantine & Pawel Huelle

18:30

Patrick Gale & Catherine Hall

9th Oct

13:00

Victoriana: Jane Harris & Essie Fox

17:30

city-pick Manchester

19:30

Carol Ann Duffy & LiTTLe MACHiNe

10th Oct

13:00

Carcanet Poets

13:00

Invisible Fiends: Barry Hutchison

15:00

Afternoon Tea with Sue MacGregor

18:30

From St Petersburg to Manchester

19:00

Face 2 Face with Sally Wainwright

19:30

Penelope Lively

20:00

Amiri Baraka

11th Oct

12:00

Poems of the City

14:00

Cathedral Poetry Prize

18:30

Fernando Iwasaki Cauti

19:00

Iain M Banks

19:30

Salley Vickers

12th Oct

13:00

Literary Reputations

17:30

Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams & Matthew Hollis

18:00

Ge Fei & Han Song

19:30

Richard Ford

13th Oct

10:30

Dickens Walking Tour

13:45

Dickens Readers' Day

14:00

Bringing Literature to Life

14:30

Leontia Flynn

15:00

Manchester: Home of the Beautiful Game?

18:00

Bio Punk

18:00

Colin Grant

18:30

Gaynor Arnold

19:30

James Kelman

14th Oct

14:00

8X8 Anthology Launch

14:00

A Rake's Progress: Kei Miller

15:30

Clare Balding

16:00

Split Screen

18:00

Pat Barker

15th Oct

13:00

Elizabeth Buchan & Kathleen MacMahon

18:30

Paul Farley & Deryn Rees-Jones

18:30

Samit Basu

19:00

Katharine McMahon & Andrew Williams

16th Oct

13:00

Portico Prize Preview

19:00

Simon Armitage

19:30

The Conductor

17th Oct

13:00

Rosie Garland

18:00

Is the Editor Dead?

19:30

Blog North Awards

19:30

Unbound Live

18th Oct

13:00

Midland Hotel Tour

15:00

Afternoon Tea with Jackie Kay

18:30

Santiago Roncagliolo

19:00

Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange

19:00

Manchester Sermon: Ali Smith

19th Oct

13:00

Yvvette Edwards & Robert Williams

18:00

Arc Poets

19:30

Manchester Poetry Prize Gala

19:30

Swimming and Flying: Mark Haddon

19:30

Sex and the Cities

20th Oct

14:00

Wang Anyi

15:30

Manchester Letters

16:00

Read It, Watch It, Talk About It - Tsotsi

17:00

Boho Literary Pub Walk

17:00

Tramlines

18:00

Out of Bounds

19:30

Hallgrímur Helgason

21st Oct

11:00

Family Reading Day

11:30

North by Northwest Literary Coach Tour

15:00

Sailing to Byzantium

15:00

Adam Marek & Guy Ware

22nd Oct

13:00

Introducing the Northern Writers' Awards

14:00

When Yesterday We Met - Storytelling in Song

18:30

Jeanette Winterson & AM Homes

23rd Oct

19:00

Jonathan Harvey

24th Oct

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