MLF Chapter & Verse
The Manchester Literature Festival Blog
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Review: An Evening with Alan Cumming
December 8, 2016
Our blogger Emily Morris reports back from a highly entertaining evening in the company of actor and writer Alan Cumming Alan Cumming features regularly in my Saturday evenings, but it’s usually on the screen of my laptop as Eli Gold, a wily, often rude but somehow loveable political campaigner, in CBS series The […]
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Review: Family Reading Day
November 6, 2015
Young Digital Reporter Rebecca Roe (and her little sisters) spent a boisterous day at the library celebrating books, reading and pirates. The Family Reading Day was a perfect day out for the whole family. I expected as much of course, Manchester Literature Festival’s events have always been wonderful, especially the ones directed to young people. The […]
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Review: Dave McKean
October 25, 2015
Festival Blogger Desmond Bullen enjoys an audence with the multitalented visual artist, illustrator and comics legend Dave McKean If the congregation taking up the pews at the Burgess Foundation are typical of his disciples, Dave McKean attracts a broad church; from the hormonal to the menopausal, from the skateboarder to the rocker, from the dressed […]