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The Manchester Lit List

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The Manchester Lit List is dedicated to literature news and events in Manchester Libraries and partner organisations. Inside you'll find stacks of info on literature events and readings by poets and novelists in Manchester, as well as exclusive interviews with famous writers and local favourites, book reviews, author profiles and much more.

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  • Rare Darwin Book Found On Toilet Bookcase

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 09:56 in darwin

    A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been sold for over £100,000 after it was found in a family's toilet.The auction of the influential 1859 work was timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of its publication, AFP re...

  • Poets & Players @ the Whitworth this Saturday

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 08:50 in michael laskey, poets and players

    Poets and Players is proud to host Michael Laskey who is not only a distinguished poet, but also an enthusiastic champion of poetry throughout the UK.Through the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and the journal Smiths Knoll, he has brought together poets fr...

  • Elizabeth Baines & Robert Graham @ Central Library

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 04:00 in elizabeth baines, author event, robert graham

    Salt have now done a second printing of Too Many Magpies, and "that's a lovely feeling" writes Elizabeth Baines on her blog.Come in from the Christmas market and have a glass of wine and hear fellow Salt authors Elizabeth and Robert read from their s...

  • Blank Pages - Issue 16 available for download now

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 09:39 in blankpages

    Blankpages is a monthly digital magazine for emerging artists. ISSUE 16 out is now and is available for FREE download.This month's Blankpages is a poetry special! Manchester’s queer vegan performance poet, Dominic Berry, treats us to his words, Jus...

  • Best book covers of the 21st century?

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 09:04 in blogs, book covers

    The Book Cover Archive blog names its best cover design (and a runner-up) for every year of the first decade of the 21st century. The Book Cover Archive's mission is 'the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design' and it's a ...

  • Do you dream of a non-stop stream of digital books?

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 08:17 in ebooks, digital publishing

    Resource Shelf has a great article about John Mark Ockerbloom’s Online Books Page. This is an essential resource for anyone interested in digitized, full text books."Where do you begin with a site so full of content? For me, that’s easy. Monitori...

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