{"id":126187,"date":"2025-09-07T19:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126187\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:47:06","slug":"first-liverpool-book-festival-sees-more-than-1000-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126187\/","title":{"rendered":"First Liverpool Book Festival sees more than 1,000 visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">More than 1,000 book lovers turned out for the first ever Liverpool Book Festival. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The festival, held at the city&#8217;s Invisible Wind Factory, featured workshops, live music, author talks and stalls from more than 60 authors showcasing their books. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It also featured special guests including comedian Stan Boardman, Marvel writers Tim Quinn and Alan Cowsill, broadcaster Billy Butler, celebrity chef Dave Critchley and Sunday Times bestseller Caroline Corcoran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Justin Hopper, organiser and editor of magazine La Vida Liverpool, said the inaugural festival had been &#8220;a lot of hard work but a triumph for local creativity and literary talent&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He said the event had raised more than \u00a31,500 for local literacy charities Inspiring Minds CIC and Builder Book. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;The feedback has been incredible and there will most definitely be more. Keep your eyes peeled for another Liverpool Book Festival soon,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 book lovers turned out for the first ever Liverpool Book Festival. The festival, held at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-126187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}