Take your pick from The Little Library’s carefully curated collection of classics and new releases, adding a recently read book of your own as a replacement.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House and award-winning garden is a must-see for literature lovers, with a book sale on the second Sunday of the month.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House has already celebrated the author’s novels Cranford and North And South, and in 2023 it’s the turn of Mary Barton.

Join the Radical Reading Book Group to discuss a book from The Reading Room Library – which you can find at Left Bank Leeds in collaboration with Pluto Press.

Join the Poetry Walk with The Reader in Calderstones Park every Thursday morning or Shared Reading groups on Tuesdays.

Leeds’ live literature night Chemistry has now been going for over a year, offering an exciting mixture of invited readers and open mic acts.

Exploring our natural world through words, music and poetry, Kendal Mountain Book Festival should be a top pick for lovers of nature writing and avid explorers everywhere.

Chorlton Book Festival takes place from Friday 15 September to Saturday 23 September, with a small but no less juicy version for 2023 as Chorlton’s lovely Carnegie library undergoes renovation.

Thomas Morris was recently heralded as one of the latest Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists cohort and his short-story collection Open Up has just been published by Faber.

Morecambe Poetry Festival is back for a second year, welcoming household names including Brian Bilston, Carol Ann Duffy and Roger McGough. 

Manchester regular Poets & Players is back for a new season of fabulous free and friendly afternoons of words and music, returning to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

University Green-based Blackwell’s Bookshop is hosting an evening of poetry with their friends at The Emma Press, an independent publishing house in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.