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The literary landscape of Manchester is as varied as the city itself. From coming-of-age classics to futurism and psychedelia, discover a new Manchester this World Book Day with my top fiction picks. Mayflies – Andew O’ Hagan Recently adapted to TV by the BBC, Mayflies is a bittersweet, coming-of-age insight into male friendship. Divided into two, the…
After 2022 and 2023, I realised I felt exhausted and burnt out from dealing with newness around PhD life as well as health challenges. I noticed one of the things that triggered this was that my habitual pace could only be describes as ‘very rushed’. I didn’t feel intentional with how I was doing things, I…
Everybody knows that being a university student is expensive. It’s a running joke that we love to spend our student loans on things you would be stretched to call a necessity, be that clothes, cappuccinos or coconut cupcakes. But the reality is that we are living through a cost of living crisis, and for many of us…
The year before I came to university was one of the most challenging experiences of my life. Not only was it the beginning of my social transition in my final year of sixth form, but my friends at the time had forgotten my 18th birthday. My mental health was rapidly declining, made worse by the…