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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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

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…

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Children and Young People

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…

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Literature

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…

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Publications

The Reader Abroad, Part 5: The Rectory

In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, reads from Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian. Visit the downloads page…

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Calderstones

Edge Hill Short Story Competition Update

Back in June Kate McDonnell wrote about The Reader Organisation's involvement in the Edge Hill Short Story Competition. Here's Clare…

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Shared Reading

Links We Liked, 23 July, 2008: White Whale Edition

Meg Guroff wrote to let me know about her labour of love, powermobydick.com, an online, annotated edition of Herman Melville's…

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Calderstones

Open Air Shakespeare Comes To Birkenhead Park

A community performance in Birkenhead Park of A Winter's Tale directed by Neil Caple is being produced by The Reader…

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Literature

Grevel Lindop’s ‘Hen Felin’

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer, and editor whose book Telling the Fractures was published by Axis projects in May 2008.…

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Literature

Featured Poem: Hen Felin, by Grevel Lindop

Helen Tookey, whose poem 'At Burscough, Lancashire' from her book Telling the Fractures we featured a few weeks ago, writes to…

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Literature

The Reader Abroad Part 4: The Idiot

In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, reads Dostoevsky.

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