The Manchester Literature Festival will return in the autumn, with a stellar line-up of writers, poets, workshops, lectures and other events going on at venues throughout the city.
The line-up this year will include appearances from the likes of Neneh Cherry, Elif Shafak, David Peace, Rebecca F. Kuang, Rumaan Alam, Paula Hawkins, Matt Haig, Alan Hollinghurst, Andrew O’Hagan, Jackie Kay, Carol Ann Duffy, George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas, Harriet Walter and Thomas Heatherwick.
It will also feature three ‘bookend’ events taking place after the main festival – the first with American author and journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner on 29 October, historian Greg Jenner on 3 November and US novelist Richard Powers on 8 November.