Thursday March 6, 2025 at 8:08am
Today is World Book Day, a day for authors and readers alike to celebrate! With a different slant today in London where schools are asking students not to dress up as their favorite characters for a change! We hope everyone enjoys the day and thank you to all our authors for adding to the world's literature for every reader to enjoy.Schools across London are ditching the dress-up plans this World Book Day, asking children to wear pyjamas or dress as a word to try and help reduce the co....
Wednesday January 1, 2025 at 10:29pm
We wish all our authors the very best with your continued creative endeavours and hope you continue to enjoy your creativity as much as your readers enjoy your writing.Wishing Everyone a Very Peaceful, Prosperous and Happy New Year for 2025!Best wishes,The FeedARead Team
Thursday October 17, 2024 at 7:16pm
100 I Feel Bad About My Neckby Nora Ephron (2006)Perhaps better known for her screenwriting (Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn), Ephron’s brand of smart theatrical humour is on best display in her essays. Confiding and self-deprecating, she has a way of always managing to sound like your best friend – even when writing about her apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. This wildly enjoyable collection includes her droll observations about ageing, vanity – an....
Thursday October 17, 2024 at 7:12pm
The secret to Pride and Prejudice’s enduring appeal? Lizzy Bennet has gameThree new TV adaptations of Austen’s classic novel have been announced, including Dolly Alderton taking it to Netflix and a BBC spin-off centred on the bookish MaryAt 12 years old, I plucked Pride and Prejudice at random from my grandmother’s bookshelf. A recklessly expeditious gobbler-up of doorstoppers, I had skimmed through many a dull descriptive paragraph in my time. But I didn’t want to miss a....
Tuesday April 23, 2024 at 7:15pm
View all news on World Book Day courtesy of The Guardian including how book fans got into fantasy dress of book characters to celebrate.View News
Thursday March 14, 2024 at 9:49pm
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prizeIrish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically astonishing’ fourth novel praised for its ‘great wit and humanity’ by judge Bernadine EvaristoAuthor Paul Murray, whose fourth novel The Bee Sting won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold book of the year prize. Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prizeIrish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically....
Thursday March 7, 2024 at 9:53pm
Anne Enright triumphs in fiction category for The Wren, Three women have triumphed in this year’s Writers’ prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio prize, with poet Liz Berry winning the overall book of the year award, worth £30,000.Berry won the £2,000 poetry prize as well as the overall award for her collection The Home Child, a novel-in-verse inspired by the poet’s great-aunt, who at 12 years old was forced to move from the Black Country to Canada as part of ....
Friday February 16, 2024 at 4:41pm
BlackfriarsBy Paul Delaney View More and ExtractDismayed at the sudden news that his dad's missing in action, Harry Smith arrives at 'Blackfriars', a top secret training school for young secret agents. Struggling to make an initial impression, Harry finally wins his coveted 'Blackfriars' badge and parachutes into enemy-occupied Prague with his unit, Ventriloquist. What awaits - death or glory?ISBN: 9781835970393Type: PaperbackPages: 328Published: 13 February 2024Pric....
Monday January 22, 2024 at 4:35pm
Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has joined fellow celebrated British writers Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson this weekend in calling on government to legislate immediately to ensure all schools in Britain have libraries.“The school library is absolutely essential at every level of education, and it needs legal protection and status,” said Pullman. “It is too easy to think that books and reading for pleasure are not essential, whereas nothing i....
Thursday January 18, 2024 at 4:37pm
An independent review of libraries in England has found a “lack of recognition” across government and a “lack of awareness” among the general public of what libraries have to offer.The review proposes the creation of a libraries minister, the establishment of a libraries laureate and a branding campaign to raise awareness of the role of libraries, among other recommendations.The review was commissioned last September for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) minister Stephen Pa....