TALES OF THE OAK

For those of you who recall our Grand Literary Tour round Greenock of a few months ago, todays Guardian selects a poem from the inspiratio...

In our Grand Literary Tour post a few weeks ago, we mentioned the work of Patrick MacGill, an irishman who lived in Greenock for a time, wo...

Free books! 20,000 passionate book lovers will give away 1,000,000 books on the first World Book Night. And you can help....here's the s...

“As from the hive where bees in summer dwell, Sorrow seems here excluded; and that knell, It neither damps the gay, nor checks the w...