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Recommended Reads: Cat Chaser by Elmore Leonard
Steven Powell, who has his own blog about Crime and Detective fiction called The Venetian Vase, has sent us a…
Featured Poem: From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
When looking for inspiration for a piece of writing, I often take time to ponder what specific occurrences inspired the…
Summer Reading
Stuck for inspiration on what to read over the summer? Let some of the staff of The Reader Organisation help…
Featured Poem: The Fly by William Blake
One of the perils – or rather, quite minor but still a significant irritation – of summertime is the endless…
Featured Poem: One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand by Edmund Spenser
It’s a fact, if a rather disheartening one, that nothing lasts forever. In some respects this is a good thing;…
Latitude Reading Fiesta
By Eleanor McCann and Jon Davis, Get Into Reading project workers (and The Make-Shift TRO Festival Team) It’s back down…
The Reader Abroad #2
Jane manages to remember a poem and two National Trust workmen get on with a vital bit of pneumatic drilling.…
The Reader Abroad: Hardy’s Birthplace #1
The Reader Editor Phil Davis looks into his glass and views his wasting skin, a ladybird passes by, and the…
iPad Publishing: is A Singing Whale the first of many?
At the beginning of July, Ryu Murakami announced that he would be publishing his new book, A Singing Whale, with…
Simon Armitage Walks O’er Vales and Hills
Amongst the favourite poems with our readers in Get Into Reading groups are those by Simon Armitage. Today I discovered…
Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Get 21st-century Makeover
Farewell to the awful swotters, dirty tinkers and jolly japes: Enid Blyton's language is being dragged out of the 1940s…
Featured Poem: Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
As much as we may berate them and bandy around unflattering stereotypes (it’s all done with affection, and who doesn’t…
