We’re delighted to announce that Eimear McBride’s three short, characteristically brilliant texts depicting a fragment of female experience, will be collected in one work, Mouthpieces, and published in February 2021….Read More >
Happy Days – creating art from archives
It is well-known that the University’s Special Collections are home to the world’s largest archive for the Nobel-Prize winning writer, Samuel Beckett with over 600 items of original material, including manuscript…Read More >
How the world’s largest Samuel Beckett collection came to Reading
Manuscripts, notebooks and papers relating to world-famous novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett go on display at the University library today to mark its official re-opening. Beckett’s biographer Professor James (Jim)…Read More >
