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Meet the Author Events hosted by Liverpool Libraries
This New Year, Liverpool libraries are hosting author events in local libraries, offering you a chance to meet the writers,…

Featured Poem: Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
To fit with the New Year, we’re giving a new look to the Featured Poem. You’ll still have a wonderful…

Radio 4 Book of the Week: Stop What You’re Doing and Read This!
Instead of a Recommended Read, this week we have a Recommended Listen! Keen Readers should tune into Radio 4 next…

Readers Of The World: Iraq
Hello everybody, it’s that time of the fortnight again where we whisk you around the world and continue our round-the-world trip,…

Stop What You’re Doing And Read This!
Vintage Books have just published a collection of ten essays called Stop What You’re Doing and Read This! by authors…

Featured Poem: Festive Selection Part 2
It's Boxing Day and by now we're all probably stuffed with turkey, mince pies, pigs-in-blankets, turkey, Christmas pudding and more…

Recommended Reads: Istanbul: Memories and the City
This week's Recommended Read comes from Patrick Fisher, Young People's Project Worker, who is currently developing Get Into Reading in schools…

Dorset Delights with Brian Nellist: Part 2
Last week the first part of Brian Nellist's delightful literary tour around Dorset - all from the safe haven of…

The Evening Read-In: A Christmas Carol Part 5
Have you done all your Christmas shopping and made all of your festive preparations? If so then you've deserved a…

The Evening Read-In: The end is in sight for Scrooge…
Like the Three Spirits, our time with Ebenezer Scrooge is rapidly approaching its conclusion - it's the last part of our…

Featured Poem: Festive Selection
The Christmas season is fast approaching, with just under a week to go to the big day (festive lunches and…

The Evening Read-In: A Christmas Carol Part 4
Here we are with the penultimate part of our completely Christmassy Evening Read-In. Just what is in store for Scrooge…