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  • Independent Places in Liverpool
    Best Bookshops in Liverpool - Reid of Liverpool

    The Best Bookshops in Liverpool

    Here’s our guide to the best bookshops in Liverpool. This list contains the best independent bookshops with reference to chain bookshops at the bottom. We always recommend and encourage you to support your local, independent bookshop! News From Nowhere Liverpool’s radical and community bookshop, News From Nowhere is a strong favourite among locals. Established in 1974 and run collectively by a women workers’ co-operative, they stock a great range of all kinds of books. You’ll…

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    The Books, Podcasts and Films Getting Us Through Lockdown 1

    The Books, Podcasts and Films Getting Us Through Lockdown

    Here we’ve shared some of our favourite books, podcasts and films for lockdown. Books The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Henrietta Lacks, better known to scientists as HeLa, was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the…