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Cheltenham Literature Festival: Leaving the Writers’ Room
Lunchtime on Sunday and I am sitting at one of the small round tables in the Writers' Room having something…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: A Question of Interpretation
Yesterday morning, Nicolette Jones chaired a riveting discussion between authors Blake Morrison and Jonathan Coe about the position of the…
Featured Poem: Ode to the West Wind
Autumn is making its presence felt: the leaves are turning, the nights are drawing in and the temperature is dropping.…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Conflict and resolution
This is not to say that there have been enraged confrontations and then gracious reconciliations at the festival, rather that…
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize
Jane Davis is Director of The Reader and seems to have enough energy to run a small town. She writes:…
Recommended Reads: Casino Royale
This recommendation of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale was posted by Anna Maddison. Anna is currently researching a PhD on Dante…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: New Writing
Radio 4 has commissioned a series of short stories, collectively called Transformations, to be presented each evening this week at…
Poppy Shakespeare Giveaway
Back in July we highlighted Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan as one of our 'recommended reads' (To read the recommendation…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Life Lines
Life Lines is an audio poetry anthology of some of the best poets writing in the English language today, including…
Featured Poem: The Stone Beach
In the last of our poetry recommendations for this week Reader outreach worker and Reader Online editor Katie Peters chooses…
Featured Poem: Morning Mudslinging
Marion Leibl has chosen 'Morning Mudslinging' by Erich Fried as our featured poem for today. She writes: 'Sometimes I meet…
Reader Editor Philip Davis on BBC Radio 3
Tomorrow (Friday October 5) Philip Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, is going to be talking with Ian Macmillan about…
