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Power Brontes
The Bronte sisters but not as you imagined them...
70 ‘best children’s books’ revealed by Puffin in their 70th year
In honour of their 70th anniversary, the book publisher Puffin has compiled a list of the 70 best children’s books…
Featured Poem: Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
So… after a month of wall-to-wall election coverage, opinion polls popping up at every turn, televised leadership debates and cross…
Featured Poem: Her Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh
Planning is important to my life. I plan. A lot. I wouldn’t say I always particularly like doing it; it…
Featured Poem: Home Thoughts, From Abroad by Robert Browning
Who would have suspected that a seemingly little natural occurrence such as some ash spewed from a volcano could have…
Featured Poem: Love by Rupert Brooke
Some poets stick in your mind for certain reasons. One might recall your school days, sitting at a desk listening…
Featured Poem: We Live In Deeds, Not Years by Philip James Bailey
When you consider it, time is a simultaneously simple but strange thing. It’s something that we all share, particularly in…
Get Ahead Fred
Fred has written to tell us all about his new collection of hats... Greetings hatfans! I'm Fred, the man about…
Featured Poem: The Invitation by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bunnies, chocolate eggs and bank holidays abound; it is Easter time again. For some of us it means a chance…
Featured Poem: Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson
It probably doesn’t sound great to start the week by looking towards its end, but there is a valid reason…
Event: Literature and Armed Conflict in Central America
University of Liverpool Post-Civil War Central American Literature Event 17th April, 14.00 to 16.00, in the Garden Room at the…
David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen medal
David Almond, author of Skellig and The Savage - our Liverpool Reads book for 2009 - has been awarded the…
