What's on

Friday 13th September 2013

• 7.30pm Jo Nesbø

Saturday 14th September 2013

• 6.30pm Paul Muldoon & Don Paterson

Monday 7th October 2013

• 10.30am The Children's Bookshow with Jackie Kay
• 1.00pm Eoin Colfer
• 6.30pm Moniza Alvi & Nadeem Aslam
• 6.30pm An Excellent Woman: A Celebration of Barbara Pym
• 7.00pm Graphic Novels

Tuesday 8th October 2013

• 1.00pm Fiction Debuts
• 6.30pm Tash Aw
• 6.30pm Face 2 Face with Frank Cottrell Boyce
• 7.00pm Patrick Ness with The Bookshop Band

Wednesday 9th October 2013

• 3.00pm Afternoon Tea with Adam O’Riordan
• 4.30pm Thomas De Quincey’s Manchester
• 7.00pm David Morrell

Thursday 10th October 2013

• 1.00pm CK Stead & Michael Hulse
• 2.00pm The Manchester Man Walking Tour
• 6.30pm Jordi Punti
• 7.00pm Louise Doughty

Friday 11th October 2013

• 1.00pm Malorie Blackman
• 6.00pm Suzanne Joinson & Asli Perker
• 6.00pm Sarah Dunant
• 8.00pm The Great Gatsby Uncovered

Saturday 12th October 2013

• 10.00am Poetry & Medicine Workshop
• 11.00am A Highland Romance: Poetry Workshop
• 2.00pm Xiaolu Guo
• 2.00pm 'Open the Windows' Poetry & Medicine Reading
• 6.00pm Ali Smith
• 6.00pm Hey Wayne!
• 7.00pm The DNA of Bats
• 7.00pm The Big Issue in the North New Writing Award

Sunday 13th October 2013

• 11.00am Northern Classics Literary Coach Tour - 2013
• 2.00pm The Little Red Hen
• 2.00pm Elaine Feinstein
• 3.00pm Helen Fielding
• 4.00pm Neil Gaiman
• 4.00pm UFO in her Eyes
• 5.30pm Roddy Doyle 2013
• 6.00pm I Am, I Am, I Am: Reflections on Sylvia Plath
• 7.30pm Jeanette Winterson & Audrey Niffenegger

Monday 14th October 2013

• 10.00am There’s A Rumble in The Jungle
• 7.00pm AD Miller

Tuesday 15th October 2013

• 12.00pm Poetry in the City
• 2.30pm Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2013
• 6.30pm Michelle Green & Sara Maitland
• 7.00pm Manchester Crime Scene
• 7.00pm Young Enigma
• 7.30pm Shackleton’s Man Goes South

Wednesday 16th October 2013

• 5.30pm Owen Sheers
• 6.00pm Walter Mosley
• 7.30pm Blog North Awards
• 7.30pm The Palace of Curiosities
• 8.00pm Devil in a Blue Dress (Certificate 15)

Thursday 17th October 2013

• 1.00pm Jacek Dehnel
• 3.00pm Afternoon Tea with Rachel Cooke
• 5.30pm The Art of the Short Story
• 6.30pm Catalan Poets
• 7.30pm Ian McMillan & Owen Sheers
• 7.30pm Deborah Levy & Sarah Hall

Friday 18th October 2013

• 1.00pm Conor O’Callaghan & Clare Shaw
• 5.30pm Iain Sinclair
• 7.30pm The 2013 Manchester Writing Competition & Gala Prize-Giving Ceremony
• 7.30pm Manchester Sermon

Saturday 19th October 2013

• 10.30am National Black Writers & Publishers Conference
• 12.00pm The Icebook
• 1.00pm Timelines – Where History Comes to Life
• 2.00pm Writing a Path Through Palestine
• 2.30pm Poets & Players 2013
• 2.30pm Carlos Acosta
• 5.30pm Catherine O’Flynn
• 7.30pm I Have a Dream: Lemn Sissay & Manchester Camerata

Sunday 20th October 2013

• 2.00pm Remembering Louis Golding & Maisie Mosco
• 5.00pm Joanna Trollope in Conversation with Jenni Murray

Monday 18th November 2013

• 7.00pm An Evening With Donna Tartt