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1. 1. Jordan up for book award

   CityLife, Tuesday 08 March 2005 HER future as a singer may be in trouble - but Jordan had better news today when her biography was shortlisted for the British Book Awards.

2. 2. Anne Diamond likes to create a mystery

   CityLife, Friday 18 March 2005 ANNE Diamond, who is appearing at Manchester Evening News' Literary Lunch, talks about Jonathan Aitken, privacy, and her future on TV.

3. 3. Potty about Potter? Join the party

   CityLife, Wednesday 13 July 2005 THERE is good news for fans of Harry Potter unable to wait until Saturday morning to get their hands on JK Rowling's latest composition.

4. 4. Tragic last chapter for Hunter S Thompson

   CityLife, Tuesday 22 February 2005 HUNTER S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself last night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

5. 5. Review: You Absolutely Couldn't Make It Up

   CityLife, Tuesday 01 November 2005

6. 6. Sharpe operator

   CityLife, Friday 02 September 2005 ONCE feted as a footballer, today Lee Sharpe is the media player with the day-glo hooped Polo shirt and piercing blue eyes. He's back on his old turf, at Manchester's Waterstone's signing copies of his biography, My Idea Of Fun.

7. 7. Pamela's island tales

   CityLife, Monday 17 October 2005 AT the end of 2003, ex-comedienne Pamela Stephenson was gazing at Auckland harbour from her hotel room, preparing for another 16-hour day. She was on a book tour. The comic and author has a new book out now called Treasure Islands.

8. 8. Gallery's portrait of black Britain

   CityLife, Monday 03 October 2005 AWARD-winning television presenter Moira Stuart dropped in at Manchester Art Gallery to see an exhibition about the largely forgotten history of black people in Britain in the 19th century.

9. 9. Jackie dazzles

   CityLife, Tuesday 18 October 2005 BEST-selling novelist Jackie Collins brought a splash of Hollywood glamour to the Lowry Hotel as she entertained a sell-out audience.

10. 10. The stanza's last stand

    CityLife, Monday 26 September 2005

    POETRY," said Samuel Johnson "is the art of uniting pleasure with truth". Notice he said pleasure. Yes, poetry can inspire and challenge but it's also meant to be enjoyed and, over 11 years, Manchester Poetry Festival has demonstrated this rather well. It gets underway on October 3.

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