Literary Manchester: A City in Words. 3pm, Sunday 3 October.
Words, wonderful words.
This tour of Manchester will be laden and laced with entertaining and informative literary tales from a city bulging with stories.
Starting outside the HSBC bank on St Ann’s Square, close to the War Memorial, and lasting an hour and a half, the tours will wend their way around the city, featuring Manchester-born and Manchester-adopted authors – plus some who simply passed through but couldn't help commenting.
Featured writers might include Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Anthony Burgess, Friedrich Engels, Harrison Ainsworth, Dodie Smith, Maisie Mosco, JB Priestley and Howard Jacobson.
As JB Priestley said in 1937, ‘Perhaps the secret of the Manchester character is that it is nine-tenths hard north country grit, solid Lancashire bone and muscle and brain, plus a remaining tenth, acting as a leaven, of liberal-minded and enterprising foreign influence, a contribution from Europe.’
There’ll even be a bit of performance poetry courtesy of the work of John Cooper Clarke.
MEET 1pm at St Ann's Square, close to the War Memorial on Sunday 18 October.
This tour of Manchester will be laden and laced with entertaining and informative literary tales from a city bulging with stories.
Starting outside the HSBC bank on St Ann’s Square, close to the War Memorial, and lasting an hour and a half, the tours will wend their way around the city, featuring Manchester-born and Manchester-adopted authors – plus some who simply passed through but couldn't help commenting.
Featured writers might include Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Anthony Burgess, Friedrich Engels, Harrison Ainsworth, Dodie Smith, Maisie Mosco, JB Priestley and Howard Jacobson.
As JB Priestley said in 1937, ‘Perhaps the secret of the Manchester character is that it is nine-tenths hard north country grit, solid Lancashire bone and muscle and brain, plus a remaining tenth, acting as a leaven, of liberal-minded and enterprising foreign influence, a contribution from Europe.’
There’ll even be a bit of performance poetry courtesy of the work of John Cooper Clarke.
MEET 1pm at St Ann's Square, close to the War Memorial on Sunday 18 October.
