‘Beautiful, powerful and haunting, this book defies erasure with imagination and integrity.’ Afua Hirsch From Ghana to Greenland, Leeds to Los Angeles, the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Ekow Eshun conjures the voices of five remarkable Black men: Ira Aldridge, Matthew Henson, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X and Justin Fashanu. His inventive and engaging book The […]
Poets & Players with Sinéad Morrissey, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight & Tim Tim Cheng Please join us on Saturday 26 October 2024, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers often bring along books and […]
Poets & Players with Sarah Howe, Lorcán Black, Tom Branfoot Please join us on Saturday 28 September 2024, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need regarding visiting the IABF on their website here. The event is free and everyone […]
Katherine Bucknell joins us at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester to talk about her illuminating new biography of Christopher Isherwood, whose writings about Berlin in the 1930s made him famous. Born in Stockport in 1904, and best known for the Berlin novels which inspired the musical Cabaret, Isherwood was one of the most prominent writers […]
The Archive of Dread: Documented tales of monsters, possession and the living dead. In late 2019 Robert Lloyd Parry inherited the contents of a flat belonging to a dead man that he’d never met. The property was full boxes, which were themselves stuffed with chilling documents: letters, diaries, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, postcards… Filed in disarray, […]
In his new small format book, Strawberry and the Big Apple: Grace Jones in Stockport, 1980, Dave Haslam explains a seemingly unlikely scenario: the day in 1980 when Grace Jones visited Stockport to meet A Certain Ratio, with a view to working together. The location of the encounter; Strawberry Studios. Worlds collide! At this event […]
Join Blackwell’s and Bad Language for a very special one-off event with the much-missed spoken word night BAD LANGUAGE to celebrate the release of Daniel Carpenter’s HUNTING BY THE RIVER and Glen James Brown’s MOTHER NAKED. Daniel and Glen will be reading from and discussing their work plus there’ll be support from Matt Hill (LAMB) […]
You are warmly invited to attend a Bloomsday celebration on 14 June 2024, celebrating Anthony Burgess’s favourite book, James Joyce’s Ulysses. Joyce’s novel is set in Dublin on a single day: 16 June 1904. ‘Bloomsday’ is so called because two of the book’s protagonists are called Leopold and Molly Bloom. Anthony Burgess wrote two non-fiction […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 27 April 2024, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need regarding visiting the IABF on their website here. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers […]
Blackwell’s bookshop is delighted to be working with White Rabbit Books to bring Richard Norris to Manchester for the launch of his stunning new memoir STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING: Adventures in Music. Richard will be in conversation with Dave Haslam. This event is being held at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Doors: 6.00, starts: 6.30 […]