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A new Read of the Week for your reading pleasure, Volunteer Coordinator and Reader-in-Residence Laragh has suggested The Life of Poetry by…

Last week our wonderful team of volunteers in Knowsley took second place in the Special Recognition for Outstanding Contribution in…

This week's Featured Poem comes from English poet and playwright John Drinkwater. Born in Leytonstone, London, on June 1 1882, John…

The evenings are closing in, the temperature is dropping, the time seems right to make a hot brew and curl…

To celebrate our new partnership with Oxford University Press we have a Reader Story from a group enjoying one of…

We're delighted to introduce our brand new partners, OUP! We are very pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with…

Chosen by Calderstones and People Assistant Eamee, this week's read is Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, a story that will appeal to young…

This week's Featured Poem, Alone from Edgar Allan Poe, celebrates World Mental Health Day. Remembering Samuel Johnson's quote about literature,…

The weather is turning, the leaves are falling, Autumn is most certainly upon us and with a new season comes…

Our Read of the Week brings us into the epic with Dante's The Divine Comedy recommended by Helen, our Volunteer Coordinator…

Our first Featured Poem of October comes from a Reader favourite with George Eliot's Making Life Worth While. Born Mary…

In The Reader Gallery this week we have a fantastic exhibition of Kantha embroidery from Bangladesh collected by Ruby Porter MBE during the 27…