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No to Age Banding?
Sam Shipman works with school children, looked-after children and those excluded from school as part of The Reader Organisation's Get…
Richard and Judy Book Club: Mounting Pressure for Change
As you know, a couple of months ago we started a campaign to get a classic work of literature on the list for…
Featured Poem: ‘Weathers’, by Thomas Hardy
The British summer has a lot going for it if you happen to be a meteorologist or a poet. Thomas…
Summer Break
The Reader Online is taking a break for a couple of weeks and as you can see we've left a…
Links We Liked for 5 August, 2008.
We're in holiday mode and it's only going to get worse over the next couple of weeks, so here are…
Richard and Judy Poll: We Have a Winner
Over the last month or so we've been conducting a poll to select the 'classic' novel that we would like…
Featured Poem: Wordes Unto Adam His Own Scriveyne
Writers often wish a plague of scabs (and worse) on their editors and Chaucer's poem about his copyist or scribe,…
The Reader Abroad Part 6: Deep Thought
In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, works on an article for the magazine and exhausts herself by…
Orwell Diaries Blog
From the 9th of August the Orwell Prize organisation will be blogging George Orwell's diaries, starting from 9th August, 1938.…
Richard and Judy Poll Ends on July 31st
Our poll to find a 'classic' novel for the Richard and Judy book club ends on Thursday. If you haven't…
When the books don’t work
In 1985 I bought my first 'Walkman', actually a cheap Sony Walkman lookalike wannabe personal tape player that I could…
The Reader Abroad, Part 5: The Rectory
In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, reads from Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian. Visit the downloads page…
