{"id":6848,"date":"2025-09-08T02:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6848\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:14:06","slug":"first-liverpool-book-festival-sees-more-than-1000-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6848\/","title":{"rendered":"First Liverpool Book Festival sees more than 1,000 visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 1,000 book lovers turned out for the first ever Liverpool Book Festival. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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","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":6849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}