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Let me confess. I love libraries. I love almost everything about them, from the faint smell of dust to the…

Today marks the 800th anniversary of Liverpool's town charter and publisher Capsica is celebrating the event by giving away the…

Writer and editor Helen Tookey is already predicting the start of autumn and the approach of winter and to make…

Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote is a new book by Jill Liddington, about the forgotten suffragettes across the…

As of today The Reader has a new website, which includes news and information about the magazine, about Reader community…

I've been away on a Scottish island odyssey for the last couple of weeks, but The Reader's flock of Internet…

With time on her hands now she has handed the editorship of The Reader over to husband Philip Davis, Jane…

BBC Radio 3 & Radio Merseyside’s Free Thinking Festival returns to Liverpool Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio…

Saturday 4th August ­ ­– Things I have seen in Romania ­ A cow grazing by a brand new glass-plate…

Like James Joyce, William Faulkner has an unjust reputation as a 'difficult' writer. Perhaps for this reason he is relatively…

Angela Macmillan made contact to point out that the BBC is working on several interesting-looking TV adaptations of eighteenth and…

Judges have announced the titles longlisted for this year's Booker Prize for fiction. The prize is one of the world's…