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Featured Poem: Stars by Katherine Mansfield
Over the last month’s lot of Featured Poems we have examined water, the sea and the things within it through…
Chain Reading Comes To Toxteth
Chain Read Tuesday 21st June, 3.00 - 4.30 pm Toxteth Library As part of our celebration of Refugee Week, we’re…
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011: Liverpool Readers’ Night at The Bluecoat
The 2011 winner of one of Britain’s most prestigious literary awards, the Orange Prize for Fiction, will be announced on…
Featured Poem: The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Remaining in the water just a little while longer – this shall be our last aquatic adventure, for a little…
Fact of the Week #3
The Guardian recently documented the lack of reading our celebrities indulge in. Victoria Beckham was alleged to have claimed to…
Prof Maryanne Wolf at The Reader Organisation’s Conference
In the first of a series of short videos from our Reading for Wellbeing Conference on 17th May, here are…
Quiz Night at Linghams Booksellers
Wednesday 22nd June, 19.30 – 21.30 Are you a bit of a bookworm? Want to test your literary expertise? Well,…
Recommended Reads: Dragonborn
Posted on behalf of Sam Shipman, our Young Person's Project Manager I read with a lovely young boy called Kevin…
Libraries I Have Known
Published on behalf of Emily Lezzeri, Get Into Reading South West Project Worker Libraries: quiet, calm and relaxing? My earliest…
Featured Poem: The Bait by John Donne
As it’s proved inviting and enthralling thus far, we shall stick with the ‘watery’ theme we’ve been exploring over the…
Fact of the Week #2
Mammoth online retailer Amazon is now selling more ebooks than printed books, with 105 downloads for every 100 physical purchases.…
Book Review: ‘Tales from Outer Suburbia’ by Shaun Tan
Published on behalf of Anna Fleming, Young Person's Project Worker The Reader Organisation was lucky enough to be sent 10…
