The Working Class Movement Library
Annie Muir’s finds some stirring stuff in Salford’s Working Class Movement Library
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The Working Class Movement Library
Ten minutes out of Piccadilly gardens on the number 50 bus is the Working Class Movement Library. A sturdy brick building, you ...
Why Anthony Trollope is a Better Version of Charles Dickens
On the surface, there appear to be many similarities between Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens: they were both born in the mid-1810s; ...
Book Club: Celia Mullins, History Student
Hi Celia! How are you, and What are you reading? Hey Phoebe! I’m great thanks. I’ve just finished reading The House of Spirits ...
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Why Anthony Trollope is a Better Version of Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Mitchell argues that one of the most prolific writers of all time deserves the same reputation as his overexposed contemporary, Dickens
Book Club: Celia Mullins, History Student
Celia Mullins talks to Book Club about House of the Spirits, the Isabel Allende classic, visceral prose, and Meryl Streep
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch – review
Ben Aaronovitch’s fantasy/crime world offers some much-needed respite as dissertation deadlines and exam period draw ever closer
Review – NW by Zadie Smith
NW may not have the punch of White Teeth, but Zadie Smith’s novels have matured alongside her, and this portrayal of London captures something real
Diary of a reluctant Kindle user
Now that the e-book apocalyptists have quietened down a bit, Joelle Jefferis turns to the somewhat more measured possibility of peaceful co-existence between books and their e- counterparts
The flawless writing of Jeffrey Eugenides
A profile of the author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex
‘Burning Bright’: Blake at the John Rylands
Annie Muir finds manuscripts worth pressing up against the glass for, at the William Blake exhibition
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Review
The film of Stephen Chobsky’s coming of age novel led Mariana back to the world of hormones and ’90s misfits, where she found a lot to relate to
Surprise and delight at The Castle Hotel
Bad Language’s spoken word event takes an evening in the pub into a realm of uncertainty and suprise
Book Club is back!
Harriet Hill-Payne, The Mancunion’s own Arts editor, talks to Books about Great Expectations
How do you choose how to choose your next book?
Online book recommendation sites get away from best-seller lists and towards personally tailored selections
