Liverpool Reads… The Savage Launches Today!
Get your Liverpool Reads book - The Savage - now!
We've got 20,000 copies of The Savage by author David Almond and illustrator Dave McKean, to give away across Greater Merseyside as part of Liverpool Reads 2009.
Today, author of The Savage, David Almond, illustrator Dave McKean, Deputy Chief Fire Officer Mike Hagen and Director of The Reader Organisation, Jane Davis, along with trainee firefighters, will be helping to load up fire engines with free copies of this year’s Liverpool Reads book, The Savage, and begin the quest to get them to communities across Merseyside.
You can get your copy of The Savage from: all Greater Merseyside libraries (across Halton, Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St. Helens, Warrington and Wirral), Merseytravel bus stations and M2Go rail station shops, Waterstone’s (Bold Street and Liverpool ONE), News from Nowhere (Bold Street), Amorous Cat (Lark Lane), Starbucks (Bold Street) and all Liverpool Football Club Stores.
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[…] annual reading campaign was launched in 2003 under the name Liverpool Reads. Previous books given away in their thousands include Andrea Levy’s Small Island, Holes, by Louis […]
[…] be some brilliant and varied choices from across the generations. Perhaps you share the choice of The Savage author and The Reader Organisation patron David Almond, who was thrilled by the magic and […]