Living – the second of five volumes in the Mersey Minis series – captures the life of the city through the eyes of residents, visitors and travellers ancient and modern.

Celebrating Liverpool’s 800th anniversary, Living finds Liverpool at work and at play, sees hardships and hobbies; enterprise, innovation, good times and the daily grind. An eclectic mix of voices, from poets and princes to playwrights, actors and activists bring to vivid life the human side of this blithe, bustling city. Like Volume One, Landing, Living is in turns funny, moving, raw, proud and poignant.
A beautifully produced and fascinating book.
Loyd Grossman

What a very stylish - and eminently ransackable - collection!
Charles Nevin, journalist
 
A wonderful idea and great choice of texts!
Christoph Grunenberg, director, Tate Liverpool
 
Great idea, lovely wee books...
Dave Calder, poet and co-founder Windows Project
Writers include:

Paul Morley,
Willy Russell
Roger McGough
Shirley Hughes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gerard Manley Hopkins
JB Pristley
Christopher Colbeck
Eleanor Rathbone
Howard Gayle
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Isabella Blow
Jack Straw
William Ewart Gladstone
Matthew Arnold
Bill Drummond
Hans Gal

Frederick Douglass
George Garrett
Margi Clarke
Friedrich Engels
Herman Melville
David Sheppard
Tracey Emin
Kenny Everett
George Orwell
Will Self
George Melly
Charles Dickens
Beryl Bainbridge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nikolaus Pevsner
Hugh Shimmin
Alexei Sayle.
I had my first copy of Merseyminis delivered just over a week ago - and what a delight it is!
Margaret Murphy, crime writer

I was really impressed with the 'Mersey Minis' book. You cannot underestimate the impact that a book of short quotes has on the reader. Once you start reading, you always want to read just one more before you put it down.
Tom Muir, Orcadian author and folklorist,

I was given your Vol I for a birthday present and am reading it at the moment. I liked Prince Albert's quote from 1846 - what a comparison to John Lennon's! The book is also very handy for carrying around. I was at a really boring event the other night and was able to read it surreptitiously. Well done! 
Stephen Guy, Local historian