Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four …
We promised a return to our reviews of favourite bookshops and here is John Maguire, taking a trip across the Pennines to …
Charles Dickens’ short tale of the supernatural, The Signal-Man begins with, Halloa! Below there… A ghost story of quality should be simple …
Breasts. Some of us have them. Do you have them? How often do you think about them? (You may answer this question …
Here at ten million hardbacks, we love a good bookshop. John Maguire writes the first in a series about our favourites. The City …
I start this Between Shades of Gray review by noting that Ruta Sepetys’ book has the inquisitive strapline brandished on the front …
A perfect quote from Diana Athill, on laziness, taken from her first memoir, Instead of a Letter: It was at school that …
Liverpool John Moores University continues to champion the spirit of the esteemed father of Liverpool Culture, William Roscoe, via the 2013 Roscoe …
Coming home for Christmas can contain a mixture of emotions, perhaps depending on where you are returning to and from which departure …
Reading has been my most loved hobby for a long time, a constant since I was a little girl and something it …
From the Pre-Spring 2013 edition of i-D magazine, courtesy of Givenchy comes word of the latest trend in high fashion: babies. Forget …
