Celia Mullins talks to Book Club about House of the Spirits, the Isabel Allende classic, visceral prose, and Meryl Streep
Books editor talks to first-time author, and Manchester student, Alexander J. Allison
Cuts have left public libraries struggling to survive. Will they make it? And what will it mean if they don’t?
The Creative Writing Professor is proving a major draw for the University and its Centre for New Writing
Get yourself to a real live speaking words event
The Peruvian author, Fernando Iwasaki Cauti, graced Manchester during the Literature Festival, to discuss technology, humour, y amor
We asked fellow Mancunion editor, Emily Clark, what she has been reading (and drinking) this week
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
This week Ata Rahman, history student and co-editor of the Manchester Historian answers to Book Club
Harriet Hill-Payne, The Mancunion’s own Arts editor, talks to Books about Great Expectations
Count down your days with a quote and a tune
Check out some of the Books section’s readers’ favourite books of the year
A ‘live’ conversation with Book Club turns from fantasy to the very real threat technology poses to reading
The politically timed re-release of We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein rankles
The beginner’s guide to Nikolai Gogol, author of Dead Souls and The Overcoat
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