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Children’s books rule the roost…and offer a retreat to grown-up readers
This week (from October 3rd-9th) is Children’s Book Week, an annual event aimed at encouraging and celebrating reading for pleasure amongst children of primary school age. Across the country, there’ll...
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The Unforgotten Coat Makes a Splash in America
Thanks to this year’s Our Read book giveaway, tens of thousands of people in the UK and beyond have read and enjoyed Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, and now it seems that our stateside...
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A Tale of Two Dickens
As we approach Dickens’ bicentenary next year there will be plenty of discussion about his life and work, including several new books which promise to shed light on the man behind the novels. It is...
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Stop What You’re Doing And Read This!
Vintage Books have just published a collection of ten essays called Stop What You’re Doing and Read This! by authors from the worlds of science, publishing, technology and social enterprise. Our very...
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McDonalds to give away millions of children’s books
This month, branches of McDonalds across the country will be giving away around nine million children’s books in their Happy Meals as part of a promotion which aims to get children and families reading...
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A Little, Aloud for Children launches!
Yes, today is the day that the much-anticipated new book A Little, Aloud for Children officially hits shelves – both real and virtual. Following-on from the great success that was A Little, Aloud, we...
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Introducing Professor Frank Cottrell Boyce…and more Unforgotten Coat success
Here at The Reader Organisation we’re reading a range of very interesting things on a daily basis, but we were especially thrilled to read this great piece in the Education Guardian all about TRO...
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Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
Great news for anyone who wants poetry on the go (and why wouldn’t you?) – the incredibly successful Staying Alive trilogy is to be condensed into a new pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems for...
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Frank Cottrell Boyce up for Roald Dahl Funny Prize
Congratulations go once more to The Reader Organisation’s patron, author and all-round supremo Frank Cottrell Boyce, who has made the shortlist for this year’s Roald Dahl Funny Prize with Chitty Chitty...
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Specsavers National Book Awards 2012 Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the Specsavers National Book Awards 2012 has been announced, with a diverse selection of titles making the cut for a total of ten different categories. The Reader Organisation patron...
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The Latest Fashionable Trend? Reading Aloud.
By Chantel Baldry, Communications Intern (Events and Publications) Elizabeth Day, a journalist for The Guardian, has been reading short stories aloud to a group of people for a month at the Simon...
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The Power of Poetry: How Serious Literature Can Boost the Brain
The Reader Organisation’s research partners, Professor Philip Davis and his team at CRILS (Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems at the University of Liverpool), have...
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Reading Well
Last week, The Reading Agency announced the launch of a new Reading Well: Books on Prescription Scheme with the Society of Chief Librarians in England. The scheme aims to bring the healing benefits of...
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Reading and the Reader
Professor Philip Davis, Editor of The Reader magazine and Director of Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems (CRILS) at the University of Liverpool has a brand new book...
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A Quick Reading Roundup
Following a relaxing Christmas break, we’re back in full swing here at The Reader Organisation and while we’ve been gone, there has been plenty going on in the world of reading, so here’s a quick...
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More men giving up on reading
A new survey has suggested that there is a gender divide when it comes to reading, with nearly two thirds of men admitting that they don’t read as much as they think they should. In the study...
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English or American literature on the syllabus?
Literature has been making headlines over the weekend with new plans to overhaul the GCSE English Literature syllabus in schools. In a shake up of the current syllabus, it has been reported that...
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Poetry: The New Tools of the Trade?
By Rebecca Pollard, Arts Admin Intern ‘Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry’ – Charles Baudelaire Here at The Reader Organisation we firmly believe that reading...
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Reading Round-Up – 1st-8th August
Want to be kept up to date with the latest happenings in the literary world, but too busy buried in a book to find out? You’re just in luck as The Reader Online is here to offer you a digest of the...
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Reading Round-Up: 9th August-22nd August
Here we are with another Reading Round-Up, giving you all the literary latest from the last fortnight with our Arts Admin Intern Rebecca Pollard: The Hachette vs. Amazon war is still waging on. If you...
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