Sarah-Clare Conlon

This special one-off features readings from three writers to celebrate the launch, on Blue Diode Press, of Spurious Language by James Appleby.

Bestselling author Tracy Chevalier – best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring – is visiting Leeds to introduce her latest book The Glass Maker.

Head online for a spine-tingling talk beaming out of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, where the team is inviting you to step over to the dark side to look at literary vampires.

The witching hour is upon us, and, just in time for Halloween, Manchester-based Fly On The Wall Press has launched a new horror anthology, Modern Gothic, with various tied-in events.

Bramhall is the place to be as globally renowned author Jodi Picoult lands in the village to read from and chat about her latest novel, By Any Other Name.

Imagine our excitement when we heard about plans for the first Withington Book Festival, to take place in autumn 2024, and now the programme has been announced.

An iconic Manchester-made fashion accessory is being celebrated in this one-off event at Central Library in conjunction with Manchester Histories Festival.

Fresh from Edinburgh International Book Festival, Heather McCalden is dropping into Manchester to discuss her book with Fitzcarraldo Editions, The Observable Universe.

Beverley Bie Brahic’s latest poetry collection, Apple Thieves, is her fifth and she will be reading from the book and chatting about it with host Katie Peterson.

We love a library, we ain’t gonna lie, so when we heard that Joe Devlin’s modified bookmarks had found a home in the pop-up display area of the Portico, well.

Our Tourist Telescope is set on the coast – more specifically, Morecambe Poetry Festival, back for a fourth year with an impressive line-up now spread over two venues: the wonderful

We’re excited by the launch of Polkadot Wounds, the fifth Carcanet collection from Forward Prize-winning poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo. This online reading will be hosted by James Womack, whose fourth collection with Carcanet, Why Are You Shouting?, is also out this month.