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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…
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…
Liverpool Literary Festival “A big success!”
Renée Hemmings and Sophie Povey reflect--well, maybe enthuse is a better word--on Shipping Lines, the first Liverpool Literary Festival. Seven…
Roger McGough is a sell out at the Liverpool Literary Festival
Roger McGough is appearing at the first event to sell out at the Liverpool Literature Festival, but luckily he is appearing…
Liverpool Poets at Liverpool Literature Festival
There will be a big homecoming of Liverpool poets during the Liverpool Literature Festival from 3-9 November, with writers coming…
Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival
Welcome to the first blog post for the Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival. The programme has been confirmed and we…
Age Banding: a bad idea or just badly handled?
A couple of weeks ago Sam Shipman wrote here about the age banding row in children's book publishing and the…
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…
