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 23rd February 2016
- 7.00pm Gloria Steinem Book Now
Tuesday 29th February 2016
Sunday 3rd April 2016
- 7.30pm Irvine Welsh Book Now
Friday 27th May 2016
- 7.00pm Marlon James Book Now
Saturday 23rd July 2016
- 2.00pm Pizza for Pirates Book Now
Thursday 8th September 2016
- 7.30pm Yuval Noah Harari Book Now
Tuesday 20th September 2016
- 11.00am Valerie Bloom Book Now
Friday 7th October 2016
- 10.30am Michael Rosen 2016 Book Now
- 1.00pm Tommy Wieringa Book Now
- 1.30pm Michael Rosen 2016 Book Now
- 4.30pm Michael Rosen 2016 Book Now
- 6.30pm Cristina Sánchez-Andrade Book Now
- 7.00pm Margaret Atwood Book Now
Saturday 8th October 2016
- 10.00am Black and Asian Writers Conference Book Now
- 11.00am Literary Manchester Walking Tour 2016 Book Now
- 2.00pm Gillian Slovo Book Now
- 4.00pm Juliet Nicolson Book Now
- 4.00pm Susan Barker Book Now
- 7.00pm Lemn Sissay Book Now
- 7.30pm Bad Language Book Now
Sunday 9th October 2016
Monday 10th October 2016
Tuesday 11th October 2016
Wednesday 12th October 2016
- 1.00pm Literary Manchester Walking Tour 2016 Book Now
- 6.00pm British Counterculture Then and Now Book Now
- 6.00pm Olivia Laing Book Now
- 6.30pm Jill Dawson Book Now
- 8.00pm Garth Greenwell & Andrew McMillan Book Now
Thursday 13th October 2016
- 3.00pm Afternoon Tea with Jane Rogers Book Now
- 6.00pm Manchester Thinkers and Drinkers Pub Tour 2016 Book Now
- 6.30pm Lionel Shriver Book Now
- 6.30pm Jessie Burton & Megan Bradbury Book Now
- 7.00pm Out of Bounds Book Now
Friday 14th October 2016
Saturday 15th October 2016
- 11.00am Hey Presto! Book Now
- 11.00am Listen to the Women! Walking Tour 2016 Book Now
- 1.00pm Sungju Lee Book Now
- 2.30pm Hey Presto! Book Now
- 3.00pm The Book of Dhaka Book Now
- 4.00pm Manchester Thinkers and Drinkers Pub Tour 2016 Book Now
- 4.00pm Brendan King Book Now
- 7.00pm Sarah Bakewell Book Now
- 8.00pm An Evening with Jackie Kay Book Now
Sunday 16th October 2016
Monday 17th October 2016
- 1.00pm Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Book Now
- 6.30pm Shetland with Ann Cleeves Book Now
- 7.00pm Anne Enright Book Now
- 7.00pm Hwang Jung-eun & Deborah Smith Book Now
Tuesday 18th October 2016
Wednesday 19th October 2016
- 1.00pm Working Class Writing Walking Tour 19 10 16 Book Now
- 6.30pm Gavin McCrea Book Now
- 6.30pm Margaret Drabble Book Now
- 8.00pm Hollie McNish & Salena Godden Book Now
- 8.00pm Susan Calman Book Now
Thursday 20th October 2016
Friday 21st October 2016
- 1.00pm Deborah Levy 2016 Book Now
- 1.00pm Listen to the Women! Walking Tour 2016 Book Now
- 7.00pm Anna Beer Book Now
- 7.30pm Vivienne Westwood Book Now
Saturday 22nd October 2016
- 10.00am Family Reading Day 2016 Book Now
- 11.00am Working Class Writing Walking Tour 20 10 16 Book Now
- 11.00am Comic Art Masterclass with Kev F Sutherland 2016 Book Now
- 2.00pm Comic Art Masterclass with Kev F Sutherland 2016 Book Now
- 2.00pm Sarah Howe Book Now
- 4.00pm Writing the North Book Now
- 7.30pm The Real Story Book Now
- 7.30pm Young Identity Book Now
Sunday 23rd October 2016
- 2.00pm Jean Sprackland Book Now
- 3.00pm Afternoon Tea with Alan Johnson Book Now
Monday 7th November 2016
- 7.30pm Johnny Marr Book Now