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Wirral Community Shakespeare: Two Extra Performances of The Winter’s Tale

The FREE tickets for all of the original performances of Wirral Community Shakespeare's open-air production of The Winter's Tale in…

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Calderstones

Richard and Judy Book Club: Mounting Pressure for Change

As you know, a couple of months ago we started a campaign to get a classic work of literature on the list for…

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Literature

Featured Poem: ‘Piano’ by D. H. Lawrence

This poem was given to me to read last week by one of our Get Into Reading group members. K, who has also been…

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Calderstones

Free Thought

As part of the BBC's Free Thinking festival, Director of The Reader Organisation, Jane Davis, appeared on Radio 3's breakfast show with…

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Literature

Featured Poem: ‘Weathers’, by Thomas Hardy

The British summer has a lot going for it if you happen to be a meteorologist or a poet. Thomas…

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Literature

Summer Break

The Reader Online is taking a break for a couple of weeks and as you can see we've left a…

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Shared Reading

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…

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Calderstones

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…

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Literature

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,…

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Literature

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…

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International

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…

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Literature

Orwell Diaries Blog

From the 9th of August the Orwell Prize organisation will be blogging George Orwell's diaries, starting from 9th August, 1938.…

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