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Chekhov’s Three Sisters in January 2008
January seems like a long way off but William Rossiter has been in touch to remind me about his one…
Mersey Care Reads Update
In posts during October we introduced Mersey Care Reads, a joint project between The Reader and Mersey Care NHS Trust,…
Reader event: The Penny Readings
On the evening of Sunday 9th December, at St George's Hall in Liverpool, The Reader is hosting its fourth annual Penny Readings…
Thoughts on the Kindle
Being in the UK I haven't yet managed to get my hands on one of Amazon's new Kindle ebook devices.…
BBC Free Thinking Festival: Going Sane
Hands up... are you sane? (A few hands hover in the air)... Insane? (A similar number of hands are thrusted…
Book Group at FACT Liverpool
Ella Jolly has been in touch to mention the book group she runs at FACT in Liverpool. The group reads…
BBC Free Thinking Festival: A Festival of Ideas
Free Thinking 07, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside's unique festival of ideas launches in Liverpool this Friday (November…
What Should I Read Next?
If you're the kind of person who dithers over what to read next features like Amazon's recommendations and 'People who…
NY Diary 5: Chicago
I flew from New York to Chicago to visit Literature For All Of Us and stayed one night at the…
NY Diary 4: Beautiful bookshop Middlemarch reader recites lines from the novel…
In Grand Central Station we went into the bookshop and when I finally made my way to the counter to…
NY Diary 2: Of Unicorns and Mary Poppins
Reader editor Philip Davis has been in New York promoting his new book, a biography of Bernard Malamud. He has…
Mersey Minis Launch: Number 5, Leaving
Fans of the popular diminutive book series Mersey Minis--mentioned here before--will be pleased to hear about the launch of book…
