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Have a bonnie Burns Night
There'll be celebrations a'plenty in the highlands tonight with feasts of haggis, neeps and tatties and more than wee drams…
A Dickens Extravaganza! London Penny Readings 2012
On Sunday, The Reader Organisation, in partnership with the British Library and Vintage Classics, brought Liverpool’s famous Penny Readings to London…
Featured Poem: The Night Is Darkening Round Me by Emily Bronte
This week's Featured Poem has been chosen by Anna Fleming, Young People's Project Worker for Get Into Reading Liverpool, who has…
Readers of the World: Nigeria
It's time once more for our fortnightly trip to foreign climes, to take a deeper look into what's going on with…
Recommended Reads: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
This week’s Recommended Read comes from Claire Ellis, our Research Coordinator, who has been exploring the deep-seated fears of the…
Blogging About Books: Bookshelf Porn
Readers of a sensitive disposition, don't be alarmed by the title: this is a beautiful blog dedicated to showing off…
John Burnside wins 2012 TS Eliot prize
Scottish poet John Burnside has won what has been dubbed the "most controversial TS Eliot poetry prize in years", after…
Featured Poem: The Fireside by G.F. Bradby
This week's Featured Poem comes from Older People's Project Manager Katie Clark (who is currently on maternity leave – thanks…
Phil Davis: Dickens and I
Professor Phil Davis, editor of The Reader Magazine, is the first contributor to the Dickens and I... series on the…
Anobii: A new reading experience
2011 was another big year for social networking - it seems like now the whole world and its granny is…
Recommended Reads: Two Lives
This week’s Recommended Read comes from Sophie Povey, our Assistant Development Manager, who has been captivated by William Trevor’s moving…
McDonalds to give away millions of children’s books
This month, branches of McDonalds across the country will be giving away around nine million children's books in their Happy Meals as…
