roma tearne @ manchester lit festival
It’s always interesting when a novel is set somewhere you know particularly well, which is why I was intrigued by Sri Lankan author Roma Tearne’s fourth book The Swimmer. Apart from calling Ipswich a city […]
MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL
CLAIRE TOMALIN @ MCR Literature Festival
Ever since I interviewed Claire Tomalin for her Pepys book which won the Whitbread Prize, I’ve come to think of her as our pre-eminent literary biographer. I simply can’t think of another author who gets […]
HOLLINGHURST/TOIBIN AT MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Yesterday was the first event in the 2011 Manchester Literature Festival, which I blogged on for the festival’s own site. Alan Hollinghurst was, of course, somewhat controversially omitted from the Booker shortlist – and Toibin […]