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Front Row: La Machine

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 this evening between 7-7.45pm to hear Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine on Front Row talking…

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Literature

The Reader Abroad: Wind

In which Chris Routledge, Online Editor of The Reader Organisation, has a problem with wind whilst reading Housman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt-1TxvNtXM

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Calderstones

Wirral’s Shakespearean Stars

Since 2002, Jane Davis, Director of The Reader Organisation, has had many Get Into Reading group members say, "Wouldn't it…

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Publications

Review: Major Benjy, by Guy Fraser-Sampson

Major Benjy, by Guy Fraser-Sampson Troubador Publishing Limited, 2008 Review by Siobhan Chapman E. F. Benson (1867-1940) published scores of novels…

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Calderstones

Age Banding: a bad idea or just badly handled?

A couple of weeks ago Sam Shipman wrote here about the age banding row in children's book publishing and the…

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Literature

Featured Poem: ‘The world is too much with us’

This famous poem, written in 1807, needs little in the way of introduction. Wordsworth's anguish over the lost connection between…

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Literature

The Distant Sound of Children

Online Editor and Blog Man Chris Routledge reads from Nineteen Eighty-Four:

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Literature

Harsh But Fair: Merlin Mann on Deciding Which Books to Read

It's a problem most readers have, but it's a problem magnified for anyone involved in any kind of publishing venture:…

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Calderstones

Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival

The Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival takes place from 3 to 9 November 2008 and has a provisional line-up that…

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Shared Reading

Post-Holiday Catch-up Link Love

  For the last two weeks I've been swanning around Western Scotland, staying well away from anything to do with…

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Literature

Featured Poem: ‘Sympathy’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem ‘Sympathy', first published in 1899, inspired the title to Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the…

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Children and Young People

No to Age Banding?

Sam Shipman works with school children, looked-after children and those excluded from school as part of The Reader Organisation's Get…

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