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Artists’ Book Fair at The Bluecoat
The Bluecoat is holding an artists' book fair this coming Saturday, 19th November. Original and outstanding artworks purposely designed in…
Featured Poem: The Comforters by Dora Sigerson Shorter
Did you know that yesterday was World Kindness Day? The worldwide recognition and appreciation of random - or entirely planned…
Recommended Reads: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
This week's Recommended Read comes from our outgoing Communications Intern Mike Butler (that's me!). I've been spending my daily commute…
Featured Poem: Evening Solace by Charlotte Bronte
Have you been bored recently? I’m not just talking about the fleeting moments of monotony that wash over like a…
Recommended Reads: The Midnight Zoo
Today's Recommended Read comes from one of our Get Into Reading Project Workers, who has been reading a children's novel…
Recommended Reads: Disgrace
Today's Recommended Read comes from our PR and Marketing Administrator Jessica Reeves, who has been exploring male desire in J. M.…
‘Dorset Delights’ at Birkenhead Library
We're getting into the swing of things on Brian Nellist's 'Dorset Delights' course on Thursday mornings in Birkenhead Central Library, where we've been…
Featured Poem: Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe
Once again we are on the immediate cusp of a new month, and no other ‘eve’ – if we discount…
A recomendayshun: ‘Don’t pawse.’ Reed it.
This week's Recommended Read comes from one of our Get Into Reading Project Workers, who has been reading the latest…
The Reader Organisation presents… the Evening Read-In
Following on from the spookily themed Stories Before Bedtime event at The Criterion Theatre in London tonight, there will soon…
A Tale of Two Dickens
As we approach Dickens' bicentenary next year there will be plenty of discussion about his life and work, including several new books which promise…
Featured Poem: Art by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American clergyman and social reformer Henry Ward Beecher said that “Books are not made for furniture, but there is…
