City of Literature

It hosts the annual International Book Festival and has its own poet laureate—the Makar.

These sites offer a selection of book genres and several domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines.

[5] Manchester is home to the "world-class" Central Library and the "historic gems" of The Portico, John Rylands, and Chetham's.

[6] Melbourne's is home to Australia's oldest public library State Library of Victoria, the Centre of Books, Writing and Ideas The Wheeler Centre and was home to the world's biggest book shop Cole's Book Arcade, opened at the turn of the twentieth century.

[8][9][10] Dunedin is the "Edinburgh of the South", and home to New Zealand's oldest university.