by Claire Westlie
Readings
Salley Vickers, reviewed by Leo Mercer
Vickers and Cathedrals Leo Mercer A hundred people gathered in Manchester Cathedral on Thursday night – not for a bible reading, but for a book reading, party of the Manchester Literature Festival. There could be no more appropriate place in town for author Salley Vickers to introduce her new novel, The Cleaner of Chartres, which […]
Penelope Lively at the Whitworth, reviewed by Sam Rigby
Penelope Lively and the Power of Reading Penelope Lively: A Reading Life at Manchester Literature Festival, Wednesday 10th October 2012 at Whitworth Art Gallery, 7.30pm The books we read in our youth can stay with us forever, perhaps unconsciously and perhaps to be forgotten about until a much later point in our lives. This was […]
Tamara Stanton on Constantine and Huelle
Review of David Constantine & Pawel Huelle, 8th October 2012 On Monday I heard the celebrated novelists, Salford-born David Constantine, and Gdansk-born Pawel Huelle each read one of their short stories at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Constantine read ‘Asylum’, a story of a disturbed teenager in a psychiatric institution who is encouraged by a […]
David Constantine and Pawel Huelle, Manchester Literature Festial, reviewed by Jessica Skoog
“We are all refugees” By Jessica Skoog Review of David Constantine and Pawel Huelle at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, October 8, 2012 As I hand my ticket to the event host, I feel an excitement akin to a child going on a carnival ride. There, just beyond the thick black curtain, awaits […]
David Constantine and Pawel Huelle, Manchester Literature Festival, reviewed by Nathaniel Ogle
Homes Away From Home at Manchester Literature Festival Event: David Constantine & Pawel Huelle, 8th October, 6:00pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation To the mild stupefaction of the staff in the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, I arrive to this—the second event of the first day of the Manchester Literature Festival, and, incidentally, the first event of […]
Robert Glasper Trio, Royal Northern College of Music
In the post-EST era, the jazz piano trio seems to be going two ways. The European trio seems as influenced by contemporary European classical music as it is by the jazz ‘traditions’ of America. Tord Gustafsen’s trio play music that is as influenced by the folk-music of his native Norway as it is by anything […]