Monthly Archives: September 2016

Welcome to the Medical Humanities Reading Group

Did you enjoy Frankenstein?  Wondering how accurate all those fainting fits are in the old novels you read? Or maybe you’re interested in history, but studying health sciences? If you’d like to know more about interdisciplinary projects, and what that word actually … Continue reading

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Wilde in prison

Peter Stoneley writes: The art production company, Artangel, has set up an exhibition in Reading Prison, to run from 4 September to 30 October.  It features well-known artists such as Steve McQueen (director of “Twelve Years a Slave,” Felix Gonzalez-Torres, … Continue reading

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September in the Rain

Peter Robinson’s September in the Rain: A Novel is published today, the first of September 2016. For the two young people found out in the rain one September night nothing can ever be the same again… Together through university, Mary … Continue reading

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Reading Literature Festival 2016

Tickets for Reading Literature Festival 2016 go on sale today. Thursday 1 September Book Here: http://store.rdg.ac/ReadingLiteratureFestivalTickets Growing out of Reading Poetry Festival’s three successful years from 2013-15, the first Reading Literature Festival, from 4 to 13 November 2016, brings together … Continue reading

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