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Recommended Reads: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia (1987) is a fictionalised account of the notorious unsolved murder of Elizabeth Ann Short in Los Angeles…
Links We Liked for December 6, 2007
In a story that should really be tagged 'Gouranga' Inside Higher Ed reports that literary graffitti has been appearing at…
Recommended Reads: Children of the Revolution
Updated 5/12/2007, 10.12pm: Children of the Revolution won the 2007 Guardian Prize. Well done Jen for picking this one. The…
Reading and Dementia
This week, the Alzheimer’s Society called for all care staff to receive mandatory training in dementia care. The call came…
Chekhov’s Three Sisters in January 2008
January seems like a long way off but William Rossiter has been in touch to remind me about his one…
Featured Poem: William Blake, ‘I saw a chapel all of gold’
By Jonathan Roberts This poem is quintessential Blake. It comes from one of his notebooks known as 'The Rossetti Manuscript'…
Cranford: Episode 2 Review
Clare Williams brings us up to date in the second of her reviews of the BBC's drama series Cranford. Episode…
Recommended Reads: The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst is best-known for his Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty (superbly adapted for television by BBC Drama), a…
A Note on Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh, who died forty years ago today is one of the best-loved of all Irish writers and was effectively…
Why are our children not reading?
British children are not reading as much as they used to and in particular they are not reading for pleasure.…
The Reader 28: Rising from the Depths
Issue 28 of The Reader magazine thumped onto the office doormat today (I'll be fine, really) and we could not…
Mersey Care Reads Update
In posts during October we introduced Mersey Care Reads, a joint project between The Reader and Mersey Care NHS Trust,…
