In May of 1895, the most dazzling man of letters of the nineteenth century was sentenced to two y...

Robert Gillmor, keen ornithologist and internationally famous wildlife artist, gives his own acco...

Against Gravity: the title alludes to our struggle with mortality as we age and, by contrast, the...

Reading Old Cemetery, with its famous Cemetery Junction arch, is a much-loved community site, val...

The poems in Threads, Ruth O'Callaghan's seventeenth collection of poetry, address both the perso...

Willie Wimmera, an Aboriginal boy, was ten years old when clergyman Lloyd Chase brought him from ...

John Froy's first poetry collection emerged from his day job as a painter and decorator, and exam...

This famous medieval round is reproduced here with exquisite black and white illustrations. Writt...

Bonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the award-winning poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw, the celeb...

Over 25 years Adrian Lawson chronicled the wildlife he encountered in the parks, woods and town o...

Reading's Abbey, founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, was huge and wealthy. Throughout its...

Brick features prominently in the towns of the Thames Valley, because the local geology provides ...