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Orange Prize Winners Announced
The winners of the Orange Prize were announced last night at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank. Nigerian…
The Poetry of Les Murray
Les Murray, sometimes of this parish, features in this week's New Yorker in a review article by Dan Chiasson. Chiasson…
Underground Books
One theory about how to get people reading is that if you put books in front of them they will…
Middle Ages Tech Support
New technology is never easy.
Getting into Reading in Runcorn
Helen Tookey On Saturday The Reader ran a readers’ day at the fantastic Brindley theatre and arts centre in Runcorn,…
Getting the Nation Reading
by Katie Peters At The Reader we were excited to hear that 2008 is to be a national year of…
Going for Gold
by Katie Peters The organisers of the Carnegie gold medal for children’s writing yesterday, librarians’ institute CILIP, last week issued…
Alternative Worlds
Reader volunteer Emily Dixon reflects on what she gets from reading For me, one of the greatest pleasures of reading…
Recommended Reads for World Book Day
Angela Macmillan recommends Bleak House by Charles Dickens. I always hum and hah whenever someone asks me to name my…
Facing a Challenge
Mary Weston, a project worker with The Reader organisation's Get Into Reading project, describes the challenge of her work with…
