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The UK's biggest #SharedReading charity 📖
We read aloud with thousands of adults and children at our home in Calderstones Park and beyond. 🌳📚☕️

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Celebrate Halloween at Calderstones Park 🧟🎃🪄From Cosy Pumpkin Carving to the Monsters' Ball - soak up the spooky season with your little one this October ✨

24 - 29 October
Spooky Cinema

25 - 27 October
Cosy Pumpkin Carving

26 - 30 October
Halloween at the Storybarn

27, 28 & 29 October
Mini Movies: Room on the Broom

31 October
Monsters' Ball

Book your tickets (if you dare) at the link in our bio 🎟️ taken in The Reader at Calderstones by @thereaderorg

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Whether you're a cosy or a Spooky, we've got this season covered! From familiar favourites returning to the park to crisp, new get-together, we've got LOTS to be excited about here at The Reader in Calderstones Park 🍂✨️🎃

September:

Heritage, Stories and Scouse
9 September

Ukulele Festival
13 September

Garden Party: Heritage Open Day
20 September

Makers at the Mansion
27 September

October:

Heritage Crafting: An Introduction to Bobbin Lacing
10 October

Wedding Open Day
18 October

Spooky Cinema
24 - 29 October

Bookshop After Dark
29 October

Seasonal Supper Club
31 October

November:

Glow in the Park
5 & 6 November

Heritage Crafting: An Introduction to Bobbin Lacing
7 November

The Reader Retreat
22 November

Boom your tickets at thereader.org.uk/autumn2026 (link in bio) 🎟 taken in The Reader at Calderstones by @thereaderorg

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Find a FREE group near you 📖

Shared Reading is a powerful experience that sparks connection, improves wellbeing and builds community. Our Shared Reading groups take place in a variety of spaces including cafés, libraries, care homes, community centres, churches and prisons. All groups are FREE - Drop in to one near you to experience the joy of reading together. Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts, ideas and memories, but there is never any pressure to talk or read aloud.

You can find a Shared Reading group at the link in our bio 📖 by @thereaderorg

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You're invited to the Wedding Open Day at Calderstones Mansion House 🎉

Meet our team of dedicated events planners, talented onsite chefs, and selected suppliers, and begin imagining the memories that you will make at The Reader Mansion House. Explore the historic theatre room, the secret garden, or dream of our perfect ceremony in at our newly licensed bookshop. We create unforgettable weddings of every size: it's your love story, your way.

📍Calderstones Mansion House, L18 5JD
📅Sunday 18 October, 11am - 3pm

🎟️Book your place at the link in our bio taken in The Reader by @thereaderorg

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Our Bookshelf title picks for October are:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Skull by Jon Klassen

Read our reflections at the link in our bio 📚

Our annual bookshelf is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, this year exploring the theme 'The Home We Carry'. by @thereaderorg

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We're hiring! Could you join our exciting team?

Apply at the 'Jobs' link in our bio. by @thereaderorg

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You have been summoned to a night of fiction, frights and feasts 🕯📖🍴

'To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls'
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

Sip a welcome drink and soak up the spooky atmosphere at the ultimate Halloween experience for book lovers. Gather for a candlelit, delicious three-course supper with beloved tales of mystery, suspense and the supernatural between courses. It will be a night you'll never forget!

Saturday 31 October, 7pmpm
The Reader Mansion House, Calderstones Park

Book your ticket at the link in our bio 🎟 taken in The Reader at Calderstones by @thereaderorg

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MEET THE AUTHOR OF DR DOG ✨

Join us and @doremi_books for a special Bookshop Bedtime Stories with @jirojiz, creator of Dr Dog: Snakey's Belly Ache – perfect for young readers who love funny animals and a little chaos. Snuggle up for storytime in a cosy blanket with your free babycino in The Reader Bookshop.

Welcome to Paw Paw Vets in Wooftown, where Dr Dog’s waiting room is full of patients who need his help. Gary the Hippo has bumped his head, Wrinkles the Elephant has hurt her trunk singing, and now Mr Snakey bursts in with a VERY suspicious bulge in his tummy!

Luckily, Dr Dog is an expert. His doctor bag is filled with bandages, tools and chew toys – everything a good dog doctor needs to save the day. But when Snakey’s X-ray is inconclusive, Dr Dog must dig deep for the most ingenious doggy solution to this medical problem!

📅13 November, 5.30pm
📍The Reader Bookshop, Calderstones Park, L18 3JB
🎟️£5 per child (includes a free babycino), adults go free (limited capacity, maximum 1 adult per family). Click the link in bio to book! by @thereaderorg

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FIND THE ✨️GOLDEN PUMPKINS✨️ TODAY! 🎃

To celebrate the return of Spooky Cinema at Calderstones Park, we've hidden ✨GOLDEN PUMPKINS✨ in local businesses in Liverpool and at our home in Calderstones Park for lucky film fans to find TODAY!

Keep your eyes on our stories for location clues and don't forget to tag us if you find a golden pumpkin 🎃

Let the hunt begin!

Ts&Cs 🧐
👻 One golden pumpkin will have one golden envelope for one winner that includes a pair of tickets to Calderstones Spooky Cinema for a screening of their choice.
👻Winners must claim their prize by Monday 19 October 2026 and will receive details of how to claim in the golden envelope.
👻Tickets cannot be exchanged for other prizes or monetary value. by @thereaderorg

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The Story of One Man, His Drums, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. All you need is... PRE:FAB!: The Insider Screening

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to meet Colin Hall, custodian for Mendips, John Lennon's childhood home and co-author of PRE:FAB. This captivating memoir that chronicles the early years of Colin Hanton as a member John Lennon’s Quarry Men. This remarkable story is now being adapted into a documentary, and Colin will share exclusive clips alongside behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insights into its making.

Colin Hanton drummed with the band for three years between 1956-1959, during which time both Paul McCartney and George Harrison joined the group. In 1958, Colin played on the very first single that John, Paul and George ever recorded, That'll Be the Day and In Spite Of All The Danger.

Co-written by Colin Hanton and Colin Hall, PRE:FAB! tells the story of these history-in-the-making days. These memories serve as an insight not only into his early musical adventures with John, but also into the social history of wartime and post-war Liverpool.

🗓️Thursday 26 November, 6.30pm
📍The Reader Mansion House, Calderstones Park
🎟️ Click the link in our bio to book tickets by @thereaderorg

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Join us for a relaxed stitching social where you can bring your current project or get started from scratch.

Whether you’re a crochet connoisseur, natural knitter, or just starting out and wanting to meet fellow creatives, this is the perfect, casual space to relax with a hobby and unwind from the day. Beginners are welcome - we’ll have some materials on hand to help you get started. Please note, this is not an instructed class and participants are encouraged to learn from each other.

Enjoy a glass of wine or a beer from our café as you stitch, chat, and make new friends.

🗓️Monday 16 November, 6.30pm
📍The Reader Bookshop, Calderstones Park

Book your space at the link in our bio 🎟️ by @thereaderorg

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