The Women’s Prize for Fiction announces a diverse long list, featuring a wide-range of debut novelists.
Does Kristen Roupenian’s debut collection live up to the hype of Cat Person? Lucy Downing finds out…
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
Andrea Levy, author of critically acclaimed novels like ‘Small Island’ and ‘The Long Song’ has died at the age of 62
One of Argentina’s most prominent writers, Samanta Schweblin, reaches new levels of eeriness in her latest short story collection ‘Mouthful of Birds’
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
Gurnaik Johal reviews Hanif Abdurraqib’s ‘Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest’, his newest book of music criticism
Science fiction can be difficult to access, but these picks will help you into a thoroughly enjoyable genre
The Mancunion previews 2019’s most exciting literary releases
Sade Omeje reviews Contact Theatre’s ‘One Mic Stand’ at Northern Quarter’s Band on the Wall
Ellis Coopey reviews ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’, the first novel in Marlon James’ new fantasy series, ‘The Blackstar Trilogy’
Manchester-based publisher, Comma Press, launches a brand new podcast
A quick roundup of all book-related events coming up this term in and around Manchester
After a report stating that poetry sales are at a record high, Gurnaik Johal takes a look at repeated criticisms of modern poetry
Alice Porter lists her top five book podcasts including ‘Literary Friction’, ‘Reading Women’, ‘You’re Booked’, ‘The High Low’ and ‘The Writer’s Voice’
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’
American author Mary Oliver has passed away at the age of 83
Alice Porter discusses the announcement of the sequel to Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel
