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Review: The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
Books editor Annie Muir encourages you to read the novel that Alice Munro always wanted to write
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Review: The Avenged by Charles Prandy
Alister Pearson predicts that Charles Prandy's self-published Jacob Hayden series is likely to gain him some loyal fans, despite a few typos
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Top 5 Campus Novels
1. Engleby, Sebastian Faulks This is not just another campus novel about a boy, Mike Engleby, who attends an ‘ancient university’ and falls completely and unrequited-ly in love…
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Top 5 second-hand bookshops
Books Editor Annie Muir reveals her favourite second-hand bookshops in Manchester
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Elaine Feinstein: Memoirs of a Poet
Elaine Feinstein sparkles in the Manchester Jewish Museum, says Annie Muir
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Poets & Players: two Michaels and a Quartet
Annie Muir took a walk to Ancoats to see this year's Poets & Players event: featuring Michael Symmons Roberts, Michael Schmidt and the Nat Birchall Quintet
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"I have a dream": Lemn Sissay & Manchester Camerata
Annie Muir feels truly privileged to have witnessed Lemn Sissay and the Manchester Camerata's tribute to Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech
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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
With this year's Man Booker Prize winner soon to be revealed, Annie Muir discusses one of the six contenders, Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland
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Michael Schmidt on the life of an editor
Books Editor Annie Muir talks to the poet, scholar and editor-extraordinaire, Michael Schmidt
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The Booker of Bookers
Books Editor Annie Muir looks back at the ultimate Booker Prize winner, Midnight's Children
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The Working Class Movement Library
Annie Muir’s finds some stirring stuff in Salford’s Working Class Movement Library