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Ranked: The Novels of Jane Austen
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth and it's got us thinking about what an incredible legacy she…

March’s Stories and Poems
With spring on its way, the world around us is beginning to fill up with new wonders. This month, we…

Liverpool ONE unveils book corners in partnership with The Reader to help boost literacy across the city
Liverpool ONE has unveiled a collection of ‘reading corners’ in a bid to help boost literacy levels among local people.…

March’s Choice From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year, this year’s…

The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year, this year’s…

February’s Stories and Poems
For February’s Monthly Stories and Poems we are bringing together two things that make up a big part of life…

The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year,…

February’s Choice From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year, this year’s…

In Conversation with ground-breaking dual-heritage author Jacqueline Roy at The Reader, Liverpool.
The author Jacqueline Roy will be in Liverpool discussing her ‘forgotten’ novel The Fat Lady Sings, republished as part of…

January’s Stories and Poems
We are starting a new year of Monthly Stories and Poems by looking to the skies, and imagining the wonder…

January’s Choice From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year, this year’s…

December’s Stories and Poems
The Reader Bookshelf theme of ‘Wonder’ might make many of us think of the very special kind of wonder which…