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by Sarah Coley, The Reader magazine's deputy editor. If you want the company of a great soul, read The Prelude…

Tomorrow (Saturday March 15th) heralds the grand re-opening of the Bluecoat arts centre in Liverpool. After a £12.5 million refurbishment…

I've been teaching Nabokov's Lolita this week and came across Zembla, a superb website dedicated to the writer. There has…

Kimberley Long discovers that history and geography matter in ways you don't expect. One thing I’ve discovered since I came…

I am not one to get down about the weather. Actually that is a complete mistruth. I worship sunshine: the…

by Steven Powell Ross Macdonald was one of the many pseudonyms of Kenneth Millar, creator of the fictional private detective…

Kenn Taylor is putting together a one-off magazine of new writing about Liverpool for 2008. It will be called 'Stories…

No, the book is not called In Celebration of World Book Day (if there are any aspiring concept novelists out…

Now of course it goes without saying that stealing is wrong, illegal, and liable to end in tears, but, you…

We're used to seeing lists of bestsellers, lists of most borrowed, most read by priests who ride motorbikes (ok, I…

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous", said Byron. That morning was 3rd March 1812, the morning that Cantos…

Maybe the sky is falling in. If it isn't it certainly looks as if the landscape for bookish debate--and for…