Mancunians are set for an eyeful this Friday as London-based Naked Boys Reading descend on the city for an evening of intellectually-stimulating literature – and full frontal nudity.

Honorary lecturer at The University of Manchester Dr David Penney and researcher James E. Jepson at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany are both fellows for the Royal Entomological Society and have studied insect preservation in rock and amber.

A Salford author is taking a visual journey through the city’s history in his latest book – and shedding light on the long-standing competition with neighbour Manchester.

A Manchester-based cross-media scriptwriter is looking to reveal the realities of schizophrenia in tribute to her tragic brother.

David Bowie Stretford superfan Louise Moody is being dubbed the ‘Keen Genie’ after building a £20,000 shrine to the ageing rocker

Attention-grabbing display of man in cage at Manchester Piccadilly was to promote the new supernatural thriller Half Bad and to mark World Book Day in the UK.

1962 novel A Clockwork Orange will be restored

The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington

Meet the Sir Alex worshippers who came to Stretford Tesco in droves

Sir Alex Ferguson autobiography slams Keane, Beckham, Rooney and Benitez

The book is a ‘biography of the City’