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Romanian Summer Diary 1
Sunday 15th July – one whole hot afternoon and several minutes neatly taken down by my friends before the start…
Recommended Reads: Poppy Shakespeare
I have just finished reading Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen. Set in a North London day hospital, Allen draws on…
Get Into Reading Gets Into TV
Get Into Reading's Ridgeway Library group will be appearing on BBC 4 tonight in a brand new literary show. The…
Issue 26 of The Reader magazine out now
Issue 26 highlights include: • New poetry by Connie Bensley, Angela Leighton, Howard Wright, Mark Leech, Mike Hoy, Nicola Daly…
First Annual Troubadour Poetry Prize
Angela Macmillan has drawn my attention to the first annual Troubadour Poetry Prize, judged by Helen Dunmore and David Constantine.…
Harry Potter and the Double-Edged Sword
The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on July 21st concludes one of the best-selling and most controversial…
The Rushdie Knighthood
Over at the Kenyon Review blog Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky has written a provocative post reflecting on the implications of Salman Rushdie's…
The Patron Saint of Bloggers
It was probably inevitable that Samuel Pepys, the most famous diarist in history, should have a blog dedicated to him.…
Armistead Maupin in Liverpool on July 4, 2007
On Independence Day 2007, Armistead Maupin, one of America’s greatest living gay writers will be appearing at a special event…
Philip Pullman–Favourite Children’s Novelist
To mark the 70th award of the Carnegie Medal, the annual award for children's writers, Philip Pullman has been voted…
Are you deciding what to read?
As an inveterate browser of bookshops I've only occasionally allowed myself to be sucked in by the 3-for-2 deals on…
Meeting the Prime Minister
Last Wednesday Jane Davis and Kate McDonnell were invited to a reception held by the Prime Minister for public sector…
