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Reader event: Penny Readings
Penny Readings St. George's Hall, Liverpool December 9th, 2007 By Chris High In the annual Penny Readings, now in its…
Books of 2007: Beer, Philosophy, Crime–Chris Routledge
Friends of The Reader write about their books of 2007. By Chris Routledge My reading tends to be dominated by…
The Temple of Serendipity
Brad Bigelow recalls skipping classes to go to the library. Somewhere around my third week in college I looked up…
Books of 2007: The Dastardly Book for Dogs–Suze Clarke
Friends of The Reader write about their books of 2007. By Suze Clarke This is a book in the age…
Recommended Reads: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters
By Josie Billington Mrs Gaskell’s last and finest work, Wives and Daughters, has been called ‘the most underrated novel in…
Books of 2007: Half of a Yellow Sun–Bea Colley
Friends of The Reader write about their books of 2007. By Bea Colley The book Half of a Yellow Sun…
Featured Poem: On Wenlock Edge
A.E. Houseman's poem 'On Wenlock Edge ...' (1896) is one of my favourite poems, not least for its description of…
Recommended Reads: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia (1987) is a fictionalised account of the notorious unsolved murder of Elizabeth Ann Short in Los Angeles…
Recommended Reads: Children of the Revolution
Updated 5/12/2007, 10.12pm: Children of the Revolution won the 2007 Guardian Prize. Well done Jen for picking this one. The…
Featured Poem: William Blake, ‘I saw a chapel all of gold’
By Jonathan Roberts This poem is quintessential Blake. It comes from one of his notebooks known as 'The Rossetti Manuscript'…
Recommended Reads: The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst is best-known for his Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty (superbly adapted for television by BBC Drama), a…
A Note on Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh, who died forty years ago today is one of the best-loved of all Irish writers and was effectively…
