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Christmas Reading: Part 6
Sarah Coley, Deputy Editor, The Reader I'm finally finishing George Eliot's Romola on my fifth attempt in five years. Eighty pages…

Christmas Reading: Part 5
Kate McDonnell, Project Manager, Get Into Reading I'm going to be reading Home by Marilynn Robinson on Jane's super-enthusiastic recommendation (and despite having…

Featured Poem: King John’s Christmas by A. A. Milne
Chosen by Katie Peters, Project Worker, Get Into Reading It's a bit of fun that takes me back my childhood,…

Christmas Reading: Part Four
Samantha Shipman Project Worker, Get Into Reading One of the books I will be giving this Christmas is Broken Soup…

Christmas Reading: Part Three
Chris Routledge Blog Man, The Reader Online We'll see how the fancy takes me at the time, but at the…

Christmas Reading: Part Two
Mark Till Volunteer, The Reader Organisation Liver: A Fictional Organ With a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes by Will Self…

Christmas Reading: Part One
We asked everyone in The Reader Organisation to tell us what books they will be reading over Christmas and which…

Featured Poem: The Visionary by Emily Brontë
I have known this poem since I was fourteen, when I first performed it for my Poetry Society examination. The poem's…

Recommended Reads: Writing Liverpool by Michael Murphy and Deryn Rees-Jones
Chris Pak was born and grew up in Hong Kong and is currently completing a P.hd at the University of…

Event Review: The Penny Readings 2008
Long before the doors of the Small Concert Room in St. George's Hall opened on Sunday, people were lining the…

A Royal Encounter
A (previously ambivalent) Ella Jolly encounters royalty Last week, whilst dashing from Banbury train station to Marks and Spencer to…

Featured Poem: A Shropshire Lad LXII by A.E. Housman
At about this time of year I seem to get in the mood for a little Housman. Maybe it's the…