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The Reader Organisation in the South West
The Reader Organisation has a fairly new and growing presence in the South West of England. Over the next few…

The Evening Read-In: Hearing is believing
It's probably not stretching things too far to say that A Christmas Carol is the story that is the most often adapted…

Reading with Older People: Yellow Wood
This update has come from Gill Stanyard, Get Into Reading Project Worker with older people in Scotland ‘It’s snowing now.’…

The Penny Readings are coming to London!
2pm, Sunday 22nd January 2012, British Library The Reader Organisation is teaming up with Vintage Classics and the British Library…

Reading is as nice as pie: Liverpool Schools Evaluation Results
Last week, we heard the worrying statistic that 1 in 3 children in the UK do not own a book.…

Featured Poem: Memory by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If you’re a regular visitor to The Reader Online then you’ll already know – and indeed, share – our belief…

Reading Dickens Aloud
If the Penny Readings and Evening Read-In have whetted your appetite for hearing Dickens read aloud, then be sure to…

Recommended Reads: What Becomes
This week’s Recommended Read comes from Christine Johnson, our Volunteer Manager, who has been discovering the fortunes of the broken-hearted…

The Evening Read-In: A Christmas Carol Part 3
It's time once more for our weekly read-in treat; who could possibly want to venture outside in the dark, cold…

The Triumphant BLUE Santas
It was raining - torrentially. Think of the term 'bucketing down' then add a few more buckets! I'm talking about…

The Evening Read-In: Getting into the Christmas Spirit (in more ways than one)
We're almost a week into December, lights are twinkling all around and now that the Penny Readings has taken place…

Into Reading? Get Knitting!
Calling all knitters (or wannabe knitters) Some of the Get Into Reading groups we run in Liverpool are funded by…