Now what I like about Chorlton Book Festival is that there is something for everyone and as you would expect I am most interested in the two events which have a historical turn, so that just leaves me to pull up the details of Charlie Pearce and Angel Meadow with as usual link to the Festival site.*
Both events are free but I bet they will be packed out so get there early.
The first is tomorrow between 10:00am - 11:30am at Saint Ninians Church, 515 Wilbraham Rd, Manchester M21 0UF, when "Chorlton Good Neighbours host a special Book Festival Coffee Morning featuring guest speaker Nakib Narat, playwright and journalist
His talk for the Chorlton Book Festival is about the infamous Victorian criminal Charles Peace - particularly his heinous crimes in Whalley Range/Chorlton on August 1st 1876.
Through dramatic readings, re-construction and illustrations Nakib will show how evil figures like Peace become romanticised into fantasy Robin Hood type characters by poetry, literature and in the case of Peace even comic books.
According to Scotland Yard: 'In all the history of crime there has been no character like Charles Peace before or since' ".
And on Friday 24th November 2017 2:00pm - 4:00pm at Chorlton Library, Manchester Rd, Manchester M21 9PN
"A special Chorlton Book Festival themed Grand Day Out featuring journalist and author Dean Kirby, the author of Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum.
Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution.
In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs. Dean reveals why this nineteenth-century Manchester slum was considered so diabolical it was re-christened 'hell upon earth' by Friedrich Engels and how a chance discovery in the rubble of an archaeological dig led him to write about Angel Meadow".
Location; Chorlton
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The first is tomorrow between 10:00am - 11:30am at Saint Ninians Church, 515 Wilbraham Rd, Manchester M21 0UF, when "Chorlton Good Neighbours host a special Book Festival Coffee Morning featuring guest speaker Nakib Narat, playwright and journalist
His talk for the Chorlton Book Festival is about the infamous Victorian criminal Charles Peace - particularly his heinous crimes in Whalley Range/Chorlton on August 1st 1876.
Through dramatic readings, re-construction and illustrations Nakib will show how evil figures like Peace become romanticised into fantasy Robin Hood type characters by poetry, literature and in the case of Peace even comic books.
According to Scotland Yard: 'In all the history of crime there has been no character like Charles Peace before or since' ".
And on Friday 24th November 2017 2:00pm - 4:00pm at Chorlton Library, Manchester Rd, Manchester M21 9PN
Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution.
In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs. Dean reveals why this nineteenth-century Manchester slum was considered so diabolical it was re-christened 'hell upon earth' by Friedrich Engels and how a chance discovery in the rubble of an archaeological dig led him to write about Angel Meadow".
Location; Chorlton
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Chorlton Book Festival, https://www.chorltonbookfestival.co.uk/
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