Manchester Literature Festival favourite Colm Tóibín is back to Manchester to celebrate his latest novel Long Island, where he returns to the characters from Brooklyn, twenty years later. Colm Tóibín is the author of ten previous novels, three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize. He has also written two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. His most recent novel, The Magician, won the Rathbones Folio Award in 2022. Brooklyn was made into an award-winning film starring Saoirse Ronan.
The evening is presented by Manchester Literature Festival and Waterstones Deansgate in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.
