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  "Reading for pleasure is the single most important thing that will make a child successful in life." UNESCO, 2011…

The Reader runs Shared Reading groups in all kinds of settings, including schools, hospitals, care homes, prisons and approved premises.…

This week’s Featured Poem is an extract taken from Paradise Lost by John Milton and read by Lizzie. For November,…

As part of our ongoing work around The Reader Bookshelf, we've asked staff to share their thoughts about some of the…

As the days shorten and the nights draw in, we’re taking inspiration from this year’s Reader Bookshelf for November’s Stories…

 The Reader is delighted to have been awarded Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation status for the second time.…

This week’s Featured Poem is an extract taken from Paradise Lost by John Milton and read by Clare. For November,…

Waldo is a Peer Recovery Trainer in Camden. He talks about how Shared Reading helped him when he was struggling…

  “Such descriptions of colour, but whom are you not seeing and why?” – comment from Shared Reading participant One…

This week's Featured Poem is Gitanjali 23 by Rabindranath Tagore and read by Emma. For October all our Featured Poems…

In honour of today’s partial solar eclipse we’ve decided to read a poem from our new anthology ‘Sun & Moon’.…

This week's Featured Poem is Gitanjali 81 by Rabindranath Tagore and read by Geetha. For October all our Featured Poems…