Do you Love2Read? 2012 in Australia is the National Year of Reading. Ensuring that Australians become a nation that loves to read is what it is all about. It’s also about boosting the literacy of children and adults, especially on a screen.

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From the 11th to the 13th century in England and Europe expressing personal feelings in relation to the beauty and bountiful joys of women became the province of troubadours, who were both composers and performers of lyrical poetry set to romantic music. They roved about the countryside visiting castles and their communities to deliver the latest ditties going about in song. The themes they favoured the most were those of chivalry and courtly love.

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Prior to the twentieth century towers were built as symbols to the heights of material wealth and prosperity the western world had yet achieved.

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers said English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). Now a part of literary history, The Yellow Book first appeared in London in April 1894.  Edited by Henry Harland and artist Aubrey Beardsley, it was to some people an offence and, in the Westminster Gazette, one critic talked about [...]

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We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a controversial figure in his [...]

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I must confess to being one of those people who reads books after they have passed their current popularity phase and, often on a plane.  It has never been intentional, but about finding time and in some cases, having missed it when it was about. Whatever the reason in a lot of ways it has [...]

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