This evening, she’s at Central Library to talk about her work as part of the Manchester Literature Festival and because her novel, Vanishing World, has just been released in English. For many ...

Going Out Out was developed and directed by Jess Edwards and written by Barney Norris, and is cleverly designed for this small studio space at Manchester’s HOME by Miriam Nabarro, and nicely lit by ...

Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery is not often the centre of national cultural attention. Yet this autumn it hosts The Nature of Gothic, an exhibition that would be at home in any major city.

The famous Power Hall at Manchester’s Science & Industry Museum – that warehouse of steam-powered engines, heaving hydraulics and giant trains – has reopened, with the favourite enormous machines of ...

Like all social justice warriors, from the early Superman bringing an unscrupulous mine owner up before the courts to Doctor Who regenerating through a rainbow of possibilities, Led By Donkeys have ...

A cult film is a lot like a crush. It shares with infatuation the thrill of discovery, the giddy delusion that the object of your affection has qualities only you can fully discern. The loved one is ...

British Textile Biennial 2025 runs November 2, 2025. See BTB25 for more information including opening times, links to an excellent podcast series and information about bus tours (highly recommended if ...

Ruth Berkoff appeared at the Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester. For more information on The Beauty of Being Herd, click ...

In its 20th anniversary year, the co-directors of Manchester Literature Festival, Cathy Bolton and Sarah-Jane Roberts, talk ...

The first time I went to the Manchester Literature Festival, I bumped into Lady Antonia Fraser ...

In essence a waking biography unmoored by dream, Balkan Erotic Epic is a singular, captivating, discomfiting, uneven and ...

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s Ancoats. It’s a new venture from husband and wife team Ben and Bo Humphreys from ...