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Stairway to Heaven
Addiction is a big problem for a lot of people. It starts at a vulnerable age with a copy of…
Featured Poem: Winter, A Poem. By James Thomson
For some reason the weather seems to to have a strong bearing on the poetry featured here. I have no…
Liverpool Reads … Mal Peet: New Website
Bea Colley writes: Exciting news! The Liverpool Reads... Mal Peet website has just gone live. Please take a look: www.liverpoolreads.com
Recommended Reads: The Earthsea Series
Harry Potterites look away now. In this post Reader magazine deputy editor Sarah Coley explains why she thinks Ursula LeGuin's…
Featured Poem: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thursday this week is of course Valentine's Day, so our featured poem really had to be a love poem. So…
Links We Liked for 9 February 2008
Literary blogs seem to be taking over from the regular book review pages. In terms of the sheer number of…
Philosophy and Sport
I am in the final stages of co-editing a book about linguistics and the philosophy of language, the second of…
Tales From the Land of ‘Day Book’
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. This is the first in a series of…
Featured Poem: John Clare’s ‘I am!’
John Clare is famously a poet of the rural working class and the Northamptonshire countryside, but he is also a…
Liverpool Reads … Mal Peet
Bea Colley, Liverpool Reads coordinator writes: 2008 is the National Year of Reading as well as Liverpool’s year as European…
A Novel Way to Support Victims of Abuse
Caroline Smailes published her first novel In Search of Adam in 2007 to wide critical acclaim. Exploring themes of sexual…
Get Into Reading on Woman’s Hour
Jane Davis has been in touch to report that the Get into Reading project will be featured on BBC Radio…
