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Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

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Dates:11 November 2025
Times:19:00 - 20:15
What is it:Talk
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public
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  • In group "(ALC) Centre for New Writing"
  • By School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Forty years after her era-defining debut Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps - a bold, brilliant celebration of the transformative power of storytelling and a radical look at the future.

Written in Jeanette’s unique style, One Aladdin Two Lamps, cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to reveal timeless questions and answers such as: Who should we trust? What makes us happy? Is love the most important thing in the world?

In her guise as Aladdin – the orphan who changes his world – Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know and look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert.

This is a chance to hear one of Britain’s most pioneering writers share her vision of reading, rewriting, and radical hope. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.

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