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Beret, Me (A poetic anthology) by Juke James Esq. This nice little publication arrived through the post recently, I’ve been too busy to relax and read anything other than exhibition announcements for quite a while but eventually found a few [...]
Local artist and poet Alice Lenkiewicz has a new book, ‘Maxine’, being published, available later in September. Its a novella, a mix of poems and prose with illustrations… The novella explores a brief lapse in the life of Maxine, a [...]
Artist Nathan Pendlebury has produced a lovely book about his father’s work (which is also very good, in fact we own one). You can see a few of the pages and purchase the book on the blurb website. About the [...]
BIENNIAL BOOK SALE Liverpool Biennial are having a spring clean of their library and are inviting you to a pay-what-you-think-its-worth book sale at the office, Friday 12 March, 2010. 4.30 – 7pm. All proceeds will go to the Haiti relief [...]
Here’s a book event at L1 Waterstones for Horror fans. Where can an author, aspiring or established, who wants to write horror or dark fantasy fiction get their short stories published? And Illustrators? Well there are penty of places but [...]
Local artist, Craig Atkinson has just published a book of his drawings. Its a limited edition, only 100 copies. More details here
FACT Shop – Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty Had a look at this in the FACT shop today, Its a bit specialist but a big and lovely book for those interested
Liverpool Confidential – Ian and Minako and the Liverpool Art Prize and things. Looks like a big publicity stunt but it wasn’t, honestly. We were approached by photographer Stephanie de Leng last year. She’s working on her second book of [...]
I’m looking forward to getting a copy of this book – looks lovely. See details of the signing and screening events below. A NEW BOOK CELEBRATING LIVERPOOL ART CULTURE AND HISTORY TITLE: ‘The Making of Liverpool: Portraits of a City [...]
This is a beautifully designed book by Switch Media. Like all good coffee table books you can dip into it at any time to admire some of the photographs. It’s also more proof that so often the simple ideas are [...]
Letterpool: Urban Art and Architecture in Liverpool. Switch Media Press ISBN 978-0-9563955-0-4 Available 1st December 2009 Hardback 196 pages Letterpool celebrates the typography and architecture of Liverpool through the names, signs, signals and street art that form the visual fabric [...]
Liverpool Artists Book Fair 2009 Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st June 2009 at A Foundation FREE ADMISSION (14/5/09 – There are a few tables left for the book fair and the deadline is fast approaching. If anyone is still interested [...]
2008 is the National Year of Reading as well as Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture. Liverpool Reads is proud to present its fourth annual reading adventure with two novels by author Mal Peet, Keeper and Tamar. The initiative [...]
Halsgrove Publishing: Liverpool The Great City, Liverpool, 9781841149493. Liverpool The Great City showcases the resurgence of the port as a tourist, leisure, shopping and educational place. Visitors to the city arrive curious about the birthplace of the Mersey Sound, the [...]
John Millard recently retired from work at World Museum Liverpool, but before he left he wrote a history of the museum. You can download the complete 140 page book for free from the World Museum site, under ‘history of the [...]
Spotted Pete Carr’s excellent book of photographs in a few places lately, including Waterstones and the shop in the Walker Art Gallery. You can also buy it online of course. Product Description Port of Culture is a showcase of the [...]
STORIES FROM THE CITY ISBN Number: 978-0-9560557-3 Price: £5.95 A collection of new writing about Liverpool: past, present and future. Written, designed, edited and produced locally and independently, Stories from the City will have its first 800 copies distributed free [...]
The latest issue of tangent arrived in the post yesterday. This is the third issue of the independent art ‘zine produced by London-based artist and fellow blogger Karen D’Amico. To quote Karen… ‘tangent is a bi-monthly publication produced with the [...]
This bookshop on Lark Lane came to my attention today and I’m reminded that I haven’t read a book for ages. I used to read a lot, indeed they have many of my old favourites in stock. I have plenty [...]
Closing Time – The Lost Pubs of Liverpool Photographed by Kevin Casey Words by Kenn Taylor ISBN 9781904438854 Binding: Paperback Size: 265 x 180 mm Pages: 96 Price: £8.99 Publication date: 1st December 2010 Published by The Bluecoat Press Launch [...]
Here is a new magazine that may interest readers. The Modernist is a unique quarterly magazine published for the North West of England by the Manchester Modernist Society, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to championing the art, design and architecture of [...]
The Reader Organisation || Our Read. Another free book to pick up soon – The Reader is a great organisation! Following the huge popularity of our big annual reading campaign, ‘Liverpool Reads’, The Reader Organisation is proud to launch in 2011 [...]
Vic Reeves’ Vast Book of World Knowledge Vic Reeves was at the Bluecoat last Friday night talking to Tim Clare about his new book Vic Reeves Vast Book of World Knowledge. He was very funny of course, discussing such things [...]
