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Our Year, Our Card Winners Presentation

‘Our Year’ has been putting Manchester’s children and youth right at the forefront of action in 2022 and what better way to highlight their talents and achievements than with a…

Read Widely – October

As our Read Widely in 2022 promotion moves on to October, Black History Month offers the perfect opportunity to celebrate, with our selection of inspirational titles by authors of colour.…

Read Widely – August 2022

To all the book lovers out there looking for some literary inspiration, check out our Read Widely in 2022 campaign, Manchester Libraries year-long promotion of fabulous fiction by authors of…

FREE Ukrainian Language Courses

The latest government figures show that there are now 87,000 Ukrainian refugees in the UK. With 136,000 visas issued this figure will grow by at least 50,000 in the coming…

Rat Pack Party!

Start your weekend early at Central Library! FRIDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER FROM 2PM. We’ve got the perfect event to fly you to the moon and get you feeling good! Join the…

An Evening with Ella Mills

Manchester Libraries, Waterstones Booksellers and Hodder Books present this special evening with bestselling food writer Ella Mills. Thursday 25th August 6.30pm Tickets available here. Join inspirational bestselling food writer Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella,…

Do the Write Thing – ONLINE SESSIONS

Join Cathy Crabb online every Saturday at 11am for some FREE mindful creative writing sessions. ‘One creative writing exercise for one hour. All writers new and old welcome. Each week…

Volunteers lend Libraries their Love!

Here at Manchester Libraries we are all about lending – books, audio books, e-books – and lots more to the people of Manchester and the wider world. But there is another…

Library work experience

I’m Charlotte, a student at York St. John University, doing work experience in the  Henry Watson Music Library. I really is a one of a kind space where musicians can…