What's on
At A Glance
Please note, this page is an archive of a previous year's programme. For the current programme, see the What's on page
Tuesday 1st September 2015
- 6.30pm Steven Pinker Book Now
Thursday 3rd September 2015
- 6.30pm David Constantine Book Now
- 8.10pm 45 Years Film Screening Book Now
Wednesday 9th September 2015
- 7.00pm Anthony Horowitz Book Now
Sunday 27th September 2015
Saturday 10th October 2015
- 11.00am Flyaway Katie Book Now
- 2.30pm Flyaway Katie Book Now
Monday 12th October 2015
- 1.00pm Michael Rosen 2015 Book Now
- 3.00pm Afternoon Tea with Deborah Moggach Book Now
- 6.00pm Jane Smiley Book Now
- 6.30pm Michael Rosen & Mandy Coe Book Now
- 7.00pm Kevin Barry & John McAuliffe Book Now
- 7.30pm An Evening with Robert Harris Book Now
- 8.00pm Jami Attenberg & Liza Klaussmann Book Now
Tuesday 13th October 2015
- 1.30pm Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester 2015 Book Now
- 6.00pm Mai Al-Nakib & May-Lan Tan Book Now
- 6.30pm Jesús Carrasco & Kirmen Uribe Book Now
- 7.30pm Jeanette Winterson Book Now
- 8.00pm The Book of Tokyo Book Now
Wednesday 14th October 2015
- 1.00pm Les Murray Book Now
- 6.30pm Andrew O'Hagan & Owen Sheers Book Now
- 6.30pm Patricia Duncker on George Eliot Book Now
- 7.00pm Val McDermid & Mark Billingham Book Now
- 7.00pm One on One with Danny Brocklehurst Book Now
Thursday 15th October 2015
- 1.00pm Literary Manchester Walking Tour 2015 Book Now
- 3.00pm Afternoon Tea with Kate Clanchy Book Now
- 6.00pm Anita Anand Book Now
- 6.30pm Care Santos Book Now
- 7.00pm Paula Hawkins, Renée Knight & Kate Hamer Book Now
- 7.30pm True Harmony – Yeats at 150 Book Now
Friday 16th October 2015
Saturday 17th October 2015
- 11.00am Man on the Moon Book Now
- 2.00pm Bidisha & Gulwali Passarlay Book Now
- 2.30pm Don Paterson & Rommi Smith Book Now
- 3.00pm Sarah Crossan, Laura Dockrill & Julie Mayhew Book Now
- 4.00pm Diao Dou & Adam Marek Book Now
- 5.00pm Boho Literary Pub Walking Tour Book Now
- 7.30pm Young Identity Book Now
- 8.00pm Kathryn Williams Book Now
Sunday 18th October 2015
- 11.00am Elizabeth Gaskell Coach Tour Book Now
- 1.00pm Zachary Leader Book Now
- 7.30pm An Evening with Carol Ann Duffy Book Now
Monday 19th October 2015
- 1.45pm Manchester Cathedral Poetry Prize 2015 Book Now
- 6.30pm Joanne Harris Book Now
- 6.30pm Nick Channer Book Now
- 7.00pm Melvyn Bragg Book Now
Tuesday 20th October 2015
- 1.00pm Love on The Dole Walking Tour Book Now
- 1.00pm Carcanet New Poetries Book Now
- 6.00pm Precarious Passages Book Now
- 6.30pm Alexandra Harris Book Now
- 6.30pm Wives and Daughters Book Now
- 7.30pm Tracey Thorn & Dave Haslam Book Now
- 8.00pm Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Shruti Chauhan & Lydia Towsey Book Now
Wednesday 21st October 2015
- 6.00pm Iain Pears Book Now
- 6.00pm Spanish Translation Workshop Book Now
- 6.30pm Jon McGregor 2015 Book Now
- 6.30pm Polly Samson & Virginia Baily Book Now
Thursday 22nd October 2015
- 1.30pm First Editions & Rarities Walking Tour 2015 Book Now
- 5.00pm Wordsmith Showcase Book Now
- 6.30pm Simon Armitage Book Now
- 7.30pm An Ape's Progress Book Now
- 7.30pm Paul Mason Book Now
Friday 23rd October 2015
- 12.00pm Charles Dickens Walking Tour Book Now
- 1.00pm Grevel Lindop & Matthew Sweeney Book Now
- 6.30pm Louis de Bernières Book Now
- 7.00pm Commonword Superheroes of Slam Final 2015 Book Now
- 7.00pm Dave McKean Book Now
- 7.30pm The Sequel Book Now
Saturday 24th October 2015
- 10.00am Family Reading Day 2015 Book Now
- 11.00am Comic Art Masterclass 2015 Book Now
- 12.00pm Louise Stern & Benjamin Wood Book Now
- 1.00pm A History of Manchester in Ten Poems Book Now
- 2.00pm Comic Art Masterclass 2015 Book Now
- 2.00pm Mary Costello & Stuart Evers Book Now
- 4.00pm Stephen Kelman & Sunjeev Sahota Book Now
- 7.00pm Adam Sisman on John le Carré Book Now
Sunday 25th October 2015
- 10.30am Wuthering Heights Coach Tour Book Now
- 12.00pm Granta Presents: What Have We Done? Book Now
- 2.00pm Sarah Hall & George Monbiot Book Now
- 4.00pm Oliver Morton Book Now
- 5.00pm Portico Prize: The Fiction Shortlist Book Now
Thursday 12th November 2015
- 7.00pm Carrie Brownstein Book Now