News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

04/10/2026

Last week we were disappointed to hear that local business' and residents near to the former Breck Road Library had been informed of a planning application had been made to turn the former site into a betting shop ! 📚

Over the past 11 months we have seen local activists tirelessly campaign week in and week out to re-open the Library which provided so much to many in our neighbourhood. It promoted access to books and education as well as acting as a vital community hub hosting many services such as Children's play sessions, Craft mornings, Film afternoons and more.

To hear that a betting shop could potential take it's place is heart breaking. Betting shops are a perfect representation on how wealth is withdrawn from our communities. Praying on people's vulnerabilities and lining the pockets of individuals and shareholders a world away from the realities of deprivation that our community faces daily.

We must say NO! We're asking all those who used the library or know of someone who did to use Liverpool City Council's planning permission portal to voice objections. The more voices the better chance that this will be blocked. We also are asking people to continue to support Everton and Anfield need a library campaign and push for adequate and accessible library provision to be reinstated in the area.

Use the QR or click the link below:
https://lar.liverpool.gov.uk/planning/index.html?fa=getApplication&id=178275

After you can then register and fill out the representation form clicking object and stating your reasons why.

If anyone need's support in filling out an objection or needs help navigating online please pop into Kitty's over the next few days and a member of our team will be happy to help.

03/10/2026

Hallo all! 🙂👋

Just a friendly request that if you want to order a book, ask us about stocking, if you would like us to share something - or if you have any questions about anything else- please don't message us here, but email or ring us instead.

We're not very active on Facebook or Instagram at the moment and often don't get to check in here very much, so don't always see messages or queries in comments.

But if you email us: [email protected] or ring us: 0151 708 7270 we will do our best to help, as swiftly as we can 🙂👍

Thanks so much all! 📚❤️

26/09/2026

Sign up to attend the event: The Exclusive screening of Pink Hair Data Whistleblower!

Ten years after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how data is weaponised to subvert democracy and elections, join us in Liverpool to watch Pink Hair Data Whistleblower - and ask the question Britain still hasn’t answered…

Are our elections any safer now - or does Big Tech still hold the keys to our democracy?

When: 28 September, 17:45-19:15 (followed by a drinks reception).
Where: Address to follow. Central Liverpool location.

Special screening of Pink Hair Data Whistleblower, a short documentary featuring an in-depth interview with Facebook-Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, followed by a discussion with:

Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South
Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative Journalist behind the Cambridge Analytica expose
Marc Silver, Director of Pink Hair Data Whistleblower
Moderated by The Citizens own, Rebecca Vincent.

Brought to you in partnership with our friends The Doc Society.
Date: 28th September 2026
Timings:
17:45 - Doors open
18:00 - Screening
18:30 - Panel Discussion
19:15 - Drinks and Canapés

Accessibility Information:
The screening will be on the ground floor, with step free access.
For further information please contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

To book your free ticket, click here: https://tally.so/r/NpkYkp

19/09/2026

New in stock! A brilliant read from our old friend Alexei ❤️

How I've Tried to Change the World: By Walking Down the Middle of the Street Shouting, by Alexei Sayle

‘Fiery and addictive . . . A national treasure’ GUARDIAN
‘I love this book. Blummin’ marvellous’ LEE MACK
‘This isn’t just a brilliant book. It’s a necessary one’ FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE

Born in working-class Liverpool in 1952 to devoted members of the British Communist Party, Alexei Sayle has spent a lifetime walking down the middle of the street shouting.

This is his memoir of life on the left, covering seven decades of social history told through marches and rallies. From the demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968 and the first miners’ strike in 1974, to the demonstration against the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the recent marches in support of Gaza, Sayle traces the enduring struggle for a better, fairer world. He explores left-wing ideas, why they matter and why it’s still worth taking them seriously.

Along the way, his trademark wit is never far behind. We encounter the Other Alexei (a bitter, retired media studies lecturer from Clitheroe Polytechnic), his imaginary daughter Tanita, and learn how a spontaneous rendition of the national anthem prevented a group of anti-nuclear protesters from being beaten up by the police.

Eye-wateringly funny, unexpectedly moving and unashamedly polemical, this is a one-of-a-kind chronicle of defiance and belief.

How I've Tried to Change the World is £16.99 (hardback) and is available to order from us here: http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=9781399629140

19/09/2026

15/09/2026

The legendary
📚 Bolshie Bargain Bookstall 📚
is back at the
Liverpool Book Market


Fri 18th & Sat 19th Sept
11:00am - 5:00pm

📚 Politics, history, global, feminism, fiction
Bargains, rarities and a cornucopia of subjects for the literary mind!

🎵 + Vintage Vinyl

01/09/2026

🍁🍂❤️

Happy 1st of September! Finally, the best four months of the year are here. I’m excited for chilly mornings, long woodland walks, mist, gloom, rain, the colours changing, lighting candles, cosy evenings, getting my knitwear out, darker nights, autumnal food, scary films, and of course, mushrooms. Who else is excited?? 🍁 👻 🍄 🪦 🍂 ☕️ 🎃

20/08/2026

Hallo, all - please note a couple of changes to our opening hours:

📖 Friday 21st August: We will be opening late (about 11.30 am) as we have staff training that morning.

📚 And on Bank Holiday Monday (31st August) we will be closed all day.

Apologies for any inconvenience - and thanks everyone for all your ongoing support!

11/08/2026

🌊✨️ If the film of The Odyssey left you wanting more — more myth, more monsters, more journeys across strange seas — come and wander a little further!

We have copies of Homer’s Odyssey in stock, alongside a selection of fantastic feminist retellings of key characters from the Greek myths, that return to the old stories and give their women new voices, new journeys, and new ways home.

🐍📚 From Medusa and Athena to Hekate and Pandora - and the many women too often left at the edges of the epic, these books ask what happens when we look again at the myths we thought we knew.

🌟 Come find your next myth.

📮📖 You can read more about each book - and order yourself a copy (you can either collect from our shop or we do mail order) - via our website:

The Odyssey (Arcturus Classics edition): https://tinyurl.com/4uv83r8r

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: https://tinyurl.com/3nkrfpbt

Women of Troy: https://tinyurl.com/ym9hp6f6

Stone Blind: https://tinyurl.com/mvja4peu

The Odyssey (Stephen Fry's retelling): https://tinyurl.com/cckpnhwx

Pandora's Jar: https://tinyurl.com/4dhcku29

Silence of the Girls: https://tinyurl.com/4znayw3r

Hekate: https://tinyurl.com/3a38hyhz

The Odyssey (Penguin Classics edition): https://tinyurl.com/2epbsa9k

No Friend to This House: https://tinyurl.com/yuyv84kc

The Voyage Home: https://tinyurl.com/58tsn484

Homer's Odyssey and Iliad (recommended for children, aged approx 8-11): https://tinyurl.com/58hm2aey