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Addiction is a big problem for a lot of people. It starts at a vulnerable age with a copy of…

Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. In the second of her series of posts…

For some reason the weather seems to to have a strong bearing on the poetry featured here. I have no…

Caroline Smailes' debut novel In Search of Adam is a triumph of stylistic originality and a read that will remain…

Bea Colley writes: Exciting news! The Liverpool Reads... Mal Peet website has just gone live. Please take a look: www.liverpoolreads.com

Angela Macmillan puts out a request to all poetry sleuths. Can anyone help track down any information about the poem and…

Harry Potterites look away now. In this post Reader magazine deputy editor Sarah Coley explains why she thinks Ursula LeGuin's…

Thursday this week is of course Valentine's Day, so our featured poem really had to be a love poem. So…

Literary blogs seem to be taking over from the regular book review pages. In terms of the sheer number of…

I am in the final stages of co-editing a book about linguistics and the philosophy of language, the second of…

Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. This is the first in a series of…

John Clare is famously a poet of the rural working class and the Northamptonshire countryside, but he is also a…