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Elsewhere we’ve written about helping children to read. This is so important and such a building block for future success, that these...

Taking Aristotle as his starting point, Canadian academic Northrop Frye, in his ground-breaking book Anatomy of Criticism, classifies...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Obvious as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, or Hans Solo in Star Wars, less obvious as Fielding in A Passage to India or Sirius Black in...

Expecting a student to be able to write sensibly about a play directly from a reading of the text alone is like expecting someone to know...

Consider the most powerful, memorable moments in your own reading. Think for a moment about the scenes in your favourite books or films...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. -Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972) As you would know...

If you were looking for a French Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo would probably fit the bill. Hugo (1802 – 1885) was a French Romantic poet,...

It was several years after I had first read The Lord of the Rings that I realised that its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was a close friend of...