Recent graduate Alice’s hunt for a job quickly turns upside down in this action-packed psychological thriller by best friend duo Mary Papageorgiou and Angela Alva. Mary, 30, who grew up in the glorious Greek sunshine (To see the Greek Version of the Facebook page click here), wrote a few children’s
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Bolton has welcomed a display of work from one of its most prolific authors – Bill Naughton. The Bill Naughton Collection is a huge cache of manuscripts and letters from Bill Naughton, who famously wrote Alfie, Spring and Port Wine, and, The Family Way. A film adaptation of Alfie was made in 1966 and the 2004
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THE POTTER Fan Convention will be happening at Printworks in the city centre this July. DiagCon will bring together fans from all over the UK on July 21 and 22 to celebrate J K Rowling’s wizarding world. According to DiagCon’s website, fans will get to meet actors from the Harry
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A Mancunian lads’ trip to Las Vegas becomes an in-depth and emotive look inside their heads, in the debut novel from Nigel Cartner. Lost in Manchester, Found in Vegas is the result of a lifelong dream of freelance music journalist and broadcaster Nigel, 35, who lives in Little Lever, Bolton. Not only
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You may already know of Caroline Khoo from her deliciously sugar coated Instagram profile Nectar and Stone. If you haven’t yet come across her work then I recommend you fire up the app immediately, hit follow and try not to drool all over your phone as you scroll through her
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First stop of the book tour…Manchester. Reggie Yates came to The Lowry in Salford last Wednesday to promote his first book, Unseen, My Journey. He fronted his first documentary, Autistic Superstars in 2011 and has since been establishing himself as an immersive documentary maker. The most recent series, The Insider sees the star immerse himself into some of the world’s most dangerous and threatening environments. The theatre was
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Having detailed the rise and fall of ‘Madchester’ in The Haçienda and Joy Division’s short career in Unknown Pleasures, legendary bassist Peter Hook tells the third, arguably the most important and certainly the most controversial part of his story: the New Order years. Following on from Joy Division’s two seminal
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WHAT: ‘Dogs and their Faithful Celebrities’ Book WHERE: Dogs Trust Online Charity WHO: Dogs Trust Dogs Trust new book ‘Dogs and their Faithful Celebrities’, a book for dog lovers around the world, is being released in celebration of the 125th year of the charity. The charming 176-page-book contains over 50 of
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Jamie Moore’s Moorsey The Fighter’s Fighter was released on the 1st of July to rave reviews. Jamie is highly respected in the boxing community and many fans had travelled to meet him on Saturday at Waterstones on Deansgate. As well as fans, the book signing was attended by Jamie’s family,
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Stuck on what to read this summer? We have 10 books here which we are sure you will love! Me Before You by Jojo Mayes Me Before You is now a major motion picture releasing soon with Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Sam Claflin (Hunger Games). This is
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