News and Updates

This month marks the halfway point in this year’s Reader Bookshelf, with the theme of ‘Weathering the Storm’. It gives us…

We're continuing to delve into the Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf with a review of Chris Riddell's anthology Poems to…

For October's Featured Poem, Lisa has chosen to read 'To Time' by Mary Tighe   To Time  by Mary Tighe…

The Reader is inviting visitors young and old to gather at its home in Calderstones Park this Christmas as it…

Our Monthly Stories and Poems for October have been chosen to mark Black History Month in the UK, and also…

Volunteer Cynthia leads a Shared Reading group in Kingston Library which is part of an innovative Arts Council England funded…

Children in kinship care - those living in the care of a relative or close family friend – will receive…

For Libraries Week 2023, Geetha Rabindrakumar, our Director of Partnerships, Communities and Impact shares how our work in libraries supports…

We're continuing to delve into the Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf with a review of Helen Cooper's Saving the…

Saturday 30 September is International Podcast Day so this month we got chatting to Frances MacMillan, the Head of Literary…

With Libraries Week UK on the horizon, we spoke with Jenna who attends a Shared Reading group at her local…

The Featured Poem for September is W.B. Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' from the poetry anthology Stressed, Unstressed which…