Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, Howard Spring’s Fame is the Spur, Magnolia Street by Louis Golding, Love on the Dole Walter Greenwood, Shelagh Delaney’s Taste of Honey …just some of the literary masterpieces set locally.

During Literature Festival month Ed Glinert, who has edited the Sherlock Holmes books for Penguin Classics and been published by HarperCollins, and Bloomsbury as well as Penguin, will be hosting a number of literary-themed events, including this free talk (with Powerpoint pictures) at Central Library.