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Summer Break
The Reader Online is taking a break for a couple of weeks and as you can see we've left a…
Links We Liked for 5 August, 2008.
We're in holiday mode and it's only going to get worse over the next couple of weeks, so here are…
Richard and Judy Poll: We Have a Winner
Over the last month or so we've been conducting a poll to select the 'classic' novel that we would like…
Featured Poem: Wordes Unto Adam His Own Scriveyne
Writers often wish a plague of scabs (and worse) on their editors and Chaucer's poem about his copyist or scribe,…
The Reader Abroad Part 6: Deep Thought
In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, works on an article for the magazine and exhausts herself by…
Japanese Diary: The Devil Makes Work
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. There are definitely some bonuses to having my…
Orwell Diaries Blog
From the 9th of August the Orwell Prize organisation will be blogging George Orwell's diaries, starting from 9th August, 1938.…
Richard and Judy Poll Ends on July 31st
Our poll to find a 'classic' novel for the Richard and Judy book club ends on Thursday. If you haven't…
Man Booker Longlist Announced
Earlier today the Man Booker judges announced the longlist for this year's prize. The books to be included in this…
When the books don’t work
In 1985 I bought my first 'Walkman', actually a cheap Sony Walkman lookalike wannabe personal tape player that I could…
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award
Frances Lincoln is an award winning publisher and Seven Stories, The Centre for Children's Books, is an innovative cultural centre for…
Featured Poem: Emily Bronte, ‘Stanza’
Think of the Brontës and poetry isn't the first thing that springs to mind. It's more likely to be Charlotte's Jane…
