All Posts
National Poetry Day 2014: Which poems do you remember?
Today is National Poetry Day 2014, and perhaps fittingly for the centenary year of the First World War, this year's…
‘It gives me a sense of worth again’ – A’s Story
At The Reader, we're opening up the wealth of emotional experience contained in great literature to people regardless of which…
Read On, Get On: Ensuring children can ‘read well’
As the new school year is underway, news that as many as 1.5m UK children could leave primary school unable…
Study shows Children who have strong reading skills ‘are more intelligent by their mid-teens’
A recent study of identical twins by researchers at Edinburgh University and King's College London has been able to show…
Giving books in Wormwood Scrubs
The debate on books in prisons is still a burning issue since months after the announcement of rules to ban…
“Reading has given me life”: Better with a Book
Yesterday delegates, readers and The Reader Organisation staff descended on The British Library Conference Centre in London, awaiting a day…
Better with a Book: One week to go!
There's just one week to go until we head to the British Library Conference Centre in London for Better with…
Inside Time: Shared reading in HMP Gartree
The latest in our series of articles showcasing The Reader Organisation's work in Criminal Justice settings as featured in Inside…
An Evaluation of a Literature Based Intervention for People with Chronic Pain
The latest research into the effects shared reading is having as a non-medical, literature based intervention into health conditions has…
‘A ripple of triumph’: feeling Better with a Book in secure settings
Better with a Book, The Reader Organisation's fifth annual National Conference, is coming to The British Library Conference Centre in…
Inside Time: The Send-Off in HMP Liverpool
Throughout the UK we are sharing reading in prisons and secure Criminal Justice settings, with the reading and discussion of…
Books in prisons: a vital lifeline
New rules by the justice secretary ban anyone sending books to prisoners. The Reader Organisation does not support this measure…
