Celia Mullins talks to Book Club about House of the Spirits, the Isabel Allende classic, visceral prose, and Meryl Streep

Harriet Hill-Payne, The Mancunion’s own Arts editor, talks to Books about Great Expectations

Books editor talks to first-time author, and Manchester student, Alexander J. Allison

Count down your days with a quote and a tune

Cuts have left public libraries struggling to survive. Will they make it? And what will it mean if they don’t?

Check out some of the Books section’s readers’ favourite books of the year

The Creative Writing Professor is proving a major draw for the University and its Centre for New Writing

A ‘live’ conversation with Book Club turns from fantasy to the very real threat technology poses to reading

Get yourself to a real live speaking words event

The politically timed re-release of We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein rankles

The Peruvian author, Fernando Iwasaki Cauti, graced Manchester during the Literature Festival, to discuss technology, humour, y amor

The beginner’s guide to Nikolai Gogol, author of Dead Souls and The Overcoat

We asked fellow Mancunion editor, Emily Clark, what she has been reading (and drinking) this week

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From 8th to 23rd October, Manchester Literature Festival takes the city as its field and the lecture theatre as its main stage. Replacing your Sziget withdrawal with something more nourishing. No tents required

International Book Week crept past last week. Anyone notice?

This week Ata Rahman, history student and co-editor of the Manchester Historian answers to Book Club

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A look at Austin English’s avant-garde comics

Name: Steve Jones (ex-editor of The Mancunion’s Literature and Film Section) Age: 21 Occupation: pre-MA parent moocher Steve Jones, question-asker of Book Club supreme, what are you currently reading (present question notwithstanding)? I am re-reading an accessible English prose version of Virgil’s Aeneid. Where have you been reading it (train, bus, beach, bath, internet, juice […]