Toni Morrison has released a new collection of essays spanning five decades of her career

The Women’s Prize for Fiction announces a diverse long list, featuring a wide-range of debut novelists.

Sade Omeje reviews Contact Theatre’s ‘One Mic Stand’ at Northern Quarter’s Band on the Wall

Does Kristen Roupenian’s debut collection live up to the hype of Cat Person? Lucy Downing finds out…

Ellis Coopey reviews ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’, the first novel in Marlon James’ new fantasy series, ‘The Blackstar Trilogy’

Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s debut novel ‘Bangkok Wakes To Rain’ masterfully follows the connected lives of a wide range of characters in the city of Bangkok

Manchester-based publisher, Comma Press, launches a brand new podcast

Andrea Levy, author of critically acclaimed novels like ‘Small Island’ and ‘The Long Song’ has died at the age of 62

A quick roundup of all book-related events coming up this term in and around Manchester

One of Argentina’s most prominent writers, Samanta Schweblin, reaches new levels of eeriness in her latest short story collection ‘Mouthful of Birds’

After a report stating that poetry sales are at a record high, Gurnaik Johal takes a look at repeated criticisms of modern poetry

Robert Boddy reviews Frances Liardet’s We Must Be Brave, a decade-spanning story of an orphaned evacuee and the woman who takes her into her family

Alice Porter lists her top five book podcasts including ‘Literary Friction’, ‘Reading Women’, ‘You’re Booked’, ‘The High Low’ and ‘The Writer’s Voice’

Gurnaik Johal reviews Hanif Abdurraqib’s ‘Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest’, his newest book of music criticism

John Wray’s Godsend works best on a big picture level, and because of that, doesn’t fall flat like most American fiction about the ‘War on Terror’

Science fiction can be difficult to access, but these picks will help you into a thoroughly enjoyable genre

American author Mary Oliver has passed away at the age of 83

The Mancunion previews 2019’s most exciting literary releases

Alice Porter discusses the announcement of the sequel to Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel

Books Editor Gurnaik Johal interviews Laura Purcell and Stuart Turton before the first show of their joint UK book tour