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Recommended Reads: Dragonfire by William S. Cohen
Continuing our series of recommendations from inmates of Walton Prison, here is Martin's take on a thriller written by the…
Featured Poem: Jackie Kay’s ‘Darling’
Jackie Kay will be appearing alongside Matt Simpson at the Sefton Celebrates Writing Literary Festival on Saturday 27 September at…
Recommended Reads: The Guv’nor Tapes by Lenny Mclean
Continuing our series of reading from the inmates of Walton prison, Anthony recommends this tale of a hard man with…
Recommended Reads: Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Last week Wendy Kay introduced the reading group from Walton prison. Here is the first in a series of book…
Featured Poem: The Beautiful Lie, by Sheenagh Pugh
Katie Clark, a Reader Organisation outreach worker recommends 'The Beautiful Lie' by Sheenagh Pugh. I recently read this poem with…
The Cosmos and the Whole Shebang
Jane Davis on the beginning and end of the cosmos, on Science Fiction, and Olaf Stapledon. Phil and I discussed…
Featured Poem: Candour, by Rebecca Goss
This week in our Featured Poem series we welcome back Rebecca Goss, who recommended Amy Lowell's 'Carrefour' for us back…
The Reader Abroad: Wind
In which Chris Routledge, Online Editor of The Reader Organisation, has a problem with wind whilst reading Housman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt-1TxvNtXM
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…
Featured Poem: ‘The world is too much with us’
This famous poem, written in 1807, needs little in the way of introduction. Wordsworth's anguish over the lost connection between…
The Distant Sound of Children
Online Editor and Blog Man Chris Routledge reads from Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Harsh But Fair: Merlin Mann on Deciding Which Books to Read
It's a problem most readers have, but it's a problem magnified for anyone involved in any kind of publishing venture:…
