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 ...

Tom Phillips' first full-length collection navigates terrains which range from Eastern Europe, Au...

Point of Honour is a landmark anthology of Portuguese poetry, the first of its kind in English.

Discover a whole new realm of botanical painting - the natural life forms that coexist with flowe...

The very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs was produced in Reading betwe...

Marking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award-winning botanical artist Christina Har...

'A quite marvellous work...an Odyssey, a Ulysses shaken up in the snow-dome of A Portrait of the ...

Get up close to the beauty and detail of nature through the artwork of award-winning UK artist, J...

Joseph René Noyau (1911-84) was a Creolophone and Francophone Mauritian writer and poet who wrote...

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is universally recognized as among the most important twentieth-ce...

Nineteenth and early twentieth century Reading prospered from the canal, the railway, brewing and...

Jean Watkins' second collection, celebrates the diversity of wildlife, landscape, art and human e...

A wide-ranging and fact-filled compendium of influential women, all with a connection to the Read...

Two Girls and a Beehive offers a minutely observed exploration of the life and work of visionary ...

Hadil Tamim was born in Al-Yarmouk Refugee Camp south of Damascus, Syria. Trained in ceramic and ...

Pennies on my Eyes

The 'Tableaux Parisiens' (Paris Scenes) section of Les Fleurs du Mal contains eighteen poems whic...

Robert Gillmor, one of Britain''s most influential wildlife artists, illustrated four sets of pic...

Cat Jeoffry is a self-contained passage from Christopher Smart''s eccentric 18th century masterpi...

In the title poem to Sicilian Elephants, his most wide-ranging and ambitious collection to date, ...

What is it to inhabit the earth, to imagine what's beyond it, to grasp the livingness of things, ...

A short history of Reading Gaol from its 19th-century origins to the present day.

The Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examinatio...

Transitional Spaces is concerned with inner lives and the secret doings of damage and repair. Tou...

This is Lesley Saunders' fifth poetry collection with Two Rivers Press. It is an intense examinat...

The poems in Discoveries, written over the last four years, respond to the uncertainties of our t...

The first edition of English Nettles brought together poems Peter Robinson began writing on his r...

Saint Christina the Astonishing was born into a poor Belgian family in 1150. She 'died' aged 22 b...

Turning Manet on his head, entering the thoughts of a post prandial lion, viewing and buying a 's...

Á la lumière d'hiver (1977) is a central work in the writing of the Swiss French poet Philippe Ja...

What are the ingredients for a successful career as a botanical artist? In The Tapestry of Life, ...

In Goldhawk Road, her eighth collection, Kate Noakes raises questions of identity - the who and w...

'Some Other Where' is about steps and missteps, disconnection, and connection, both in relationsh...

Passionate and affirming, the poems in this collection have at their heart an intense hunger for ...

Take a fresh look at the world through the lens of a self-confessed nature-obsessed artist. Asuka...

In the title poem of Katherine Meehan's debut collection, Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Cord ...

The poems in Where Shadow Falls explore the frailties of the human condition, the landscapes in w...