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A day in the life of GIR Wirral #2
Project worker Alexis McNay provides us with today's update from his group, St James’ ‘Book at Breakfast’. Great news…
A day in the life of GIR Wirral #1
Get Into Reading Wirral is the largest of our Get Into Reading Projects: there are over 100 groups and one-one-sessions…
Featured Poem: Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
If your world hasn’t been filled with hearts, flowers and oversized helium balloons and coloured by all different shades of…
Proud to Read Aloud #2
It's time for the second installment of our 'Proud to Read Aloud' series - a little something to start your…
50,000 Our Read books have arrived
Yes, they're here - 50,000 copies of The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce, written ESPECIALLY FOR US, for Our…
The Cardboard Book Project
Definitely worth a look if you have a moment... Jemma Foster's collection of twelve short story books are not available…
Lightship International Literary Prizes
An exciting new literary competition has been launched online, offering new and emerging writers around the world the chance to…
Featured Poem: The Thread of Life by Christina Rossetti
Last week, we pondered the sound of silence – or should that be the sounds of silence plural, as Hood’s…
Tales of the Country
Tales of the Country tells the story of Brian Viner - the man who wrote the fantastic article about GIR…
Proud to Read Aloud
Reading aloud - it's what we do, isn't it? If you have your copy of A Little, Aloud you would…
BBC to finish Charles Dickens’s “Edwin Drood”
Writer Gwyneth Hughes has completed The Mystery of Edwin Drood for a BBC Four drama, to be screened later this…
Featured Poem: Silence by Thomas Hood
Silence is golden, or so we’re often told. Like most idioms randomly plucked from thin air or a weighty dictionary…
