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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

Kant and marmalade, a solemn talk with a lift, an existential struggle with something from IKEA, ...

In The Third City, his most remarkable collection to date, James Peake once more offers us his un...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

In The Adjustments, Claire Dyer's fourth collection with Two Rivers Press, the poet explores the ...

With Signs Following, David Ricks's first full collection, brings together poems and translations...

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

The lively story of Reading's music scene in the late 70s and early 80s following the explosion o...

Pomona's Orchard, Adrian Blamires' third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutel...

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

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

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

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

Quakers in the UK are grouped into many local Meetings; this book outlines the history of Reading...

Historical ephemera gives us a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in Reading in centuries pas...

Paradise Takeaway is a long poem with Luton Airport in it. Part memoir, part invention, it takes ...

Downland is a unique collaboration celebrating the landscape of the North Wessex Downs as seen th...

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

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

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

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

Kitty Hawkins' first collection These Yellow Days is haunted by the birth and death of an idealis...

In The Blue Armchair, his third collection, John Froy seeks to rediscover his mother after her de...

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

1976: just as the Sex Pistols are about to release 'Anarchy in the U.K.', James Harpur arrives at...

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

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

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

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