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The Reader 44 is Here

In this issue, Jeanette Winterson talks with Jane Davis about her recently published memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?,  (Jonathan Cape,…

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The Evening Read-In: Reading In is the new going out

The first part of our first Evening Read-In, reading the ever-enduring Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, took place last Thursday…

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WordAid – Poems for a Good Cause

WordAid is a collective of published poets working together to raise funds for charity.  Their latest project is an anthology…

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Literature

Featured Poem: Milk for the Cat by Harold Monro

In last week’s Featured Poem, we were set abuzz with high praise and appreciation for the quite small but certainly…

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Literature

Recommended Reads – Far from the Madding Crowd

This week's Recommended Read comes from Lisa Spurgin, our Communications Assistant, who has been enjoying the masterful Thomas Hardy's breakthrough…

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The Evening Read-In: A Christmas Carol Part 1

It's here - the first part of the very first TRO Evening Read-In! If you're quite settled, and have enough…

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The Evening Read-In: All About…A Christmas Carol #3

The true-to-life aspects of the story - and how it shows the true spirit of Christmas... A number of aspects…

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The Evening Read-In: All About…A Christmas Carol #2

A tale for reading out loud It seems A Christmas Carol is a story that is particularly designed to be…

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The Evening Read-In: All About…A Christmas Carol #1

To get ready for the very first Evening Read-In – coming this Thursday, 24th November at 9pm – we’ll be…

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Literature

Featured Poem: How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts

A couple of weeks ago, we touched upon the banes – as well as the benefits – of boredom. Now…

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Literature

Recommended Reads – The Knife of Never Letting Go

This week's Recommended Read comes from Jen Tomkins, our Communications Manager, who has been reading about the trials of self…

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The Evening Read-In – one week to go!

There are just 7 days, 168 hours, 10,080 minutes, 604,800 seconds (if you want to count them all...) to the first…

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