Take your pick from The Little Library’s carefully curated collection of classics and new releases, adding a recently read book of your own as a replacement.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House and award-winning garden is a must-see for literature lovers, with a book sale on the second Sunday of the month.

Each year, the team at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House picks one of the famous 19th-century author’s texts to take a deep dive into: in 2024, it’s Wives and Daughters.

Browse a varied and well curated selection of second-hand books at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House in Manchester’s best second-hand book sale.

Young persons writing and performing workshops based at HOME in the heart of Manchester.

The Portico Library’s latest exhibition, Weird As Folk, runs through to November and invites you to explore and reimagine folklore via texts selected from the collection, which includes 100 books of English folklore.

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.

Experience unforgettable theatre in Manchester this autumn.

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

Chorlton Book Festival takes place from Friday 20 September to Saturday 28 September, with a small but no less juicy version for 2024 as Chorlton’s lovely Carnegie library undergoes renovation.

Our Tourist Telescope is set on the coast – more specifically, Morecambe Poetry Festival, back for a third year with an impressive line-up now spread over two venues: the wonderful Winter Gardens and upstairs at The King’s Arms.

Stella Halkyard’s new title on Carcanet Press is called Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands, so it would be remiss of them, really, not to hold the launch at Manchester’s magnificent John Rylands Library.