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Book at Breakfast 2008: Clare Allan
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, The Reader Organisation hosted two free and fabulous 'Book at Breakfast'…
Launching a Reading Revolution (and a Website)
Last week, as some readers will have noticed, we quietly launched the new website for The Reader Organisation on a…
Event: Physiological Responses to Shakespeare
We have varying physiological responses to Shakespeare, depending on whether we are reading or listening to works of the Bard,…
Recommended Reads: A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carre
A sobering if not worrying read. Gripping in the usual le Carré manner with believable ‘nasties’ doing their establishment jobs,…
The Reading Cure: A Very Special Panel Member
It is with great delight (and excitement) that I can announce that Liverpool's legendary literature lover, Brian Nellist MBE, will…
Rebirths and Revamps
We've been working hard behind the scenes on a much-needed redesign of the Reader Organisation's website, which is why the…
Heart of Darkness: men, women, and modernism
Yesterday I was contacted by writer Maggie Goren with a piece she had written in response to Raymond Tallis's story…
Literature Festivals: Spoilt for Choice in the North West
Cheltenham Literature Festival. Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival. Edinburgh International Book Festival. These are the 'big' names in British literary festivals. They…
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…
Reader 31 ‘Relative Time’ Is Here
Issue 31 of The Reader magazine, entitled 'Relative Time' is available now from our shop, where you can also buy back…
Front Row: La Machine
Tune in to BBC Radio 4 this evening between 7-7.45pm to hear Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine on Front Row talking…
Review: Major Benjy, by Guy Fraser-Sampson
Major Benjy, by Guy Fraser-Sampson Troubador Publishing Limited, 2008 Review by Siobhan Chapman E. F. Benson (1867-1940) published scores of novels…
