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BBC Free Thinking Festival: A Festival of Ideas
Free Thinking 07, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside's unique festival of ideas launches in Liverpool this Friday (November…
What Should I Read Next?
If you're the kind of person who dithers over what to read next features like Amazon's recommendations and 'People who…
NY Diary 5: Chicago
I flew from New York to Chicago to visit Literature For All Of Us and stayed one night at the…
NY Diary 4: Beautiful bookshop Middlemarch reader recites lines from the novel…
In Grand Central Station we went into the bookshop and when I finally made my way to the counter to…
NY Diary 2: Of Unicorns and Mary Poppins
Reader editor Philip Davis has been in New York promoting his new book, a biography of Bernard Malamud. He has…
Mersey Minis Launch: Number 5, Leaving
Fans of the popular diminutive book series Mersey Minis--mentioned here before--will be pleased to hear about the launch of book…
Mersey Care Reads Update
In her piece a few weeks ago, Get Into Reading project worker Mary Weston introduced the Mersey Care Reads project,…
Book At Breakfast Invitation 10th and 11th November
The Reader in association with BBC Radio 3 is running two "Book at Breakfast" events on 10th and 11th November…
Pitching her case: Jane Davis on Night Waves
In the run-up to this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival in Liverpool next month, Jane Davis (Director, The…
Poetry Launch: Life Lines 2
Last night, amongst the hustle and bustle of London's Tottenham Court Road and Soho, the launch of Life Lines 2…
The Man Booker 2007: Anne Enright’s The Gathering
As Anne Enright said in an interview shortly after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, 'The…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Getting in the way
I must confess, I have been away from Cheltenham for a couple of days - things to do in Liverpool…
