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Devon MP to visit Feel Better With A Book
This week's meeting of our weekly Feel Better With A Book group in Totnes Library, Devon will be a particularly…

Make Friends with a Book in North Wales
In October last year, The Reader Organisation received over £236,000 from Big Lottery Wales to take shared reading into the…

Middlemarch with Brian Nellist
Short Courses for Serious Readers: Middlemarch with Brian Nellist Starts Monday 30th September 2013 for 10 weeks 10.30am-12.30pm, The Lauries…

Reading is a Picnic at Calderstones
The Mansion House at Calderstones has become a hive of activity once more, with summer seeing it the place to…

Recommended Reads for Children: A Series for Summer
As the long summer holidays continue in full swing, there's no better time to get children hooked on one of…

Social Business Trust invests in The Reader Organisation
Great news for the Reading Revolution - the Social Business Trust is investing £280,000 in The Reader Organisation, helping us…

Lear at the Mansion House: Tonight’s the Night!
The day has arrived - tonight we'll be bringing Shakespeare's Globe's production of King Lear to Calderstones. With only hours…

Featured Poem: On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again by John Keats
As you may already be aware, big things are happening at Calderstones Mansion House as tomorrow evening, the Garden Theatre…

Betty has a strong memory of being cut off by the tide and ‘guided’ to shore by a dog
Earlier this week, The Reader we gave a summary of the 'Living Well with Dementia' session at Shared Reading for…

Lear is nearly here at Calderstones Mansion House
There's less than a week until the Garden Theatre at Calderstones Mansion House is opened for the first time in…

Shared Reading for Healthy Communities: Living Well with Dementia
The next instalment in our series of highlights from this year's The Reader Organisation National Conference recaps our seminar on…

Featured Poem: The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
We recently held a special Afternoon Tea celebration event for our North West volunteers, many of whom are part of…