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Featured Poem: A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
It is safe to say that I am a dreamer. It’s one of my favourite activities. But I seem to…
Our Reader Runners
Just look at the lengths we're prepared to go to for sponsorship! It's the Run Liverpool 5K Team Challenge this…
The Reader Abroad #4 : Sark – Island of Books (and cream teas)
In which The Reader visits slow time on the island of Sark and things nearly come to a complete halt.
Britain’s favourite Ode to the Countryside – the search is on
Surely, two of the most relaxing, enriching and enjoyable pursuits in life are reading poetry and taking a long brisk…
Director’s Fitness Diary no 3
Thanks for all your comments, suggestions, support and donations! Did another walk with some running and actually enjoyed some of…
Director’s Fitness Diary no 2
Thighs minus oxygen equal concrete bollards How have small squat people survived? Surely when the prehistoric clan ran away from…
Featured Poem: The Stare’s Nest By My Window by W.B. Yeats
There’s been a distinct political flavour to proceedings in the literary world in the past week. There was the small…
Alexei Sayle Book Launch and Signing
Saturday 11th September 2010, 2.00pm at News from Nowhere Bookshop 96 Bold St, Liverpool, L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270…
Featured Poem: A Little While by Emily Bronte
The summer season is nearing its end; schools, colleges and universities will soon be back in session and before long,…
The Reader Abroad #3
The Reader team find some tea and two deck-chairs in the the smallest secondhand bookshop in the world, but lose…
Digging the Past
"Digging the Past", an event with thriller authors Nick Drake and Paul Sussman, takes place on Saturday 4th September, in the…
Featured Poem: Pretty Words by Elinor Wylie
I have always had a fascination – nearing on obsession – with words. Not just the technicalities of their usage…
