Award-winning DC Comics artist Dean Ormston and internationally renowned pin-up artist Fiona Stephenson are curating this unique and colourful comic book art exhibition.
Free entry
Matt Haig rounds off a series of four What Does It Mean To Be Human? talks curated by Leeds Beckett University for Leeds International Festival with his guide to navigating the technology-strewn modern world.
SOLD OUT
Independent policy advisor Simon Anholt delivers one of four in a series of talks, curated by Leeds Beckett University for the Leeds International Festival, asking: what does it mean to be human?
From £12
Ten years on from making her landmark BBC2 series The Incredible Human Journey, Alice Roberts explores the latest insights into the colonisation of the globe by our Stone Age ancestors.
From £12
This talk – part of a series at LIF – will elaborate on how meditation and mindfulness techniques can help us maintain our humanity and compassion in an increasingly busy world.
From £12
L19 Cube is an event venue created for the Leeds International Festival 2019.
Almost 35 years since his debut Less Than Zero, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has published his first book of non-fiction, White, which he discusses in his first UK event of 2019.
From £7
Mathematician and author Jonathan Swinton reads from and discusses his new book Alan Turing’s Manchester, about the codebreaker and computer expert’s professional and personal life in the city.
From £4
The shiny new Blackwell’s Manchester bookshop is going gothic with an evening with bestselling author Michelle Paver, who will be talking about and signing copies of her new adult gothic fiction novel, Wakenhyrst.
From £3
Debut fiction event at brand-new Blackwell’s bookshop, featuring readings by first-time authors Amy Arnold, Glen James Brown and SK Perry, each of whom is published by the indies.
Maz Hedgehog’s debut collection of original poems, Vivat Regina, is out with Superbia Books this month and she’ll be headlining Bad Language – expect magical beasts and beings with a black queer perspective and viewpoints within British cultural identity.
Free entry
Novelist and essayist Jenn Ashworth headlines this year’s contribution from The Real Story to the Not Quite Light Festival 2019, an evening of nonfiction stories exploring the themes of twilight, time and transition.
From £3
