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In the run-up to this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival in Liverpool next month, Jane Davis (Director, The…

Last night, amongst the hustle and bustle of London's Tottenham Court Road and Soho, the launch of Life Lines 2…

As Anne Enright said in an interview shortly after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, 'The…

I must confess, I have been away from Cheltenham for a couple of days - things to do in Liverpool…

Mary Weston manages the Merseycare Reads Project, teaches in Continuing Education, works as a counsellor, runs open house for asylum…

Sitting down with my lunch (it’s not all cake) in the Writers’ Room, I was asked “So, have you done…

Ray Costello, the author of the new book on the Liverpool black community, Liverpool Black Pioneers, published by Bluecoat Press,…

News has reached The Reader of another literary festival in October. It seems unlikely that the Danish pastries and power…

Eleven months ago I began working on a Get Into Reading project at a local care home for elderly people…

Not unfamiliar to a regal presence, yesterday Cheltenham played host to one of Britain's most admired leading female actors, Dame…

My day at the festival started with a walk across Cheltenham's Imperial Square in the quiet sunshine of an autumnal…

Yesterday, my day at the festival was bridged by two events that could not have provided two more different insights…