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Home of the Beautiful Game?

As I entered the National Football Museum for the first time I got the same feeling, that jolt that I always get whenever I run out onto a football pitch, or emerge from the underbelly of a stadium and find myself surrounded by thousands of fellow fans, or even [...]

Bringing Literature to Life at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 13th October 2012
By Robert Beck
As a theatre goer and prolific reader, it comes as no surprise that I love it when a story that I have enjoyed reading is adapted to the stage. Yet where does one start in recreating the essence of the [...]

Review of Manchester: Home of the Beautiful Game? By Dylan Wiggan
My experience of ‘Manchester: Home of the Beautiful Game?’ began in surprise.  The Urbis, an alternative museum, had been rebranded as the National Museum of Football. As a Manchester native I felt somewhat embarrassed I was not aware of this, apparently, non-recent transformation. As I [...]

“Literature is not easy but without Literature we are lost.” This message welcomes you into The International Antony Burgess Foundation, and being an English Literature student I wholeheartedly agree. It’s Saturday 13th October and I am attending an event by the Literature festival, “Bringing Literature to Life”. I have no expectations of this event, as [...]

Review of ‘Penelope Lively: A Reading Life’, by Zoe Weldon
10th October 7.30pm Whitworth Art Gallery
£10/8 entry

I am afraid to admit that thus far, I have ignored the cultural and artistic imperative to visit the Whitworth Art Gallery and so, the visit held many firsts for me; my first time to the gallery, my first time [...]

Salley Vickers Launches New Novel The Cleaner of Chartres
By Claire Westlie

The mysterious and beautiful Manchester Cathedral was the perfect setting for Salley Vickers to launch her new novel The Cleaner of Chartres on Thursday, October 11 at 7:30pm at the Manchester Literature Festival.
It was pouring rain as I ran up to the Cathedral [...]

Vickers and Cathedrals
Leo Mercer

A hundred people gathered in Manchester Cathedral on Thursday night – not for a bible reading, but for a book reading, party of the Manchester Literature Festival. There could be no more appropriate place in town for author Salley Vickers to introduce her new novel, The Cleaner of Chartres, which is [...]

Penelope Lively and the Power of Reading
Penelope Lively: A Reading Life at Manchester Literature Festival, Wednesday 10th October 2012 at Whitworth Art Gallery, 7.30pm
The books we read in our youth can stay with us forever, perhaps unconsciously and perhaps to be forgotten about until a much later point in our lives. This was certainly case [...]

Review of David Constantine & Pawel Huelle, 8th October 2012
On Monday I heard the celebrated novelists, Salford-born David Constantine, and Gdansk-born Pawel Huelle each read one of their short stories at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Constantine read ‘Asylum’, a story of a disturbed teenager in a psychiatric institution who is encouraged by a visitor [...]

“We are all refugees”
By Jessica Skoog
Review of David Constantine and Pawel Huelle at the
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, October 8, 2012
 
            As I hand my ticket to the event host, I feel an excitement akin to a child going on a carnival ride. There, just beyond the thick black curtain, awaits an experience I’ve never [...]