Readers will recognise more than a few names on the contents page in The Reader 30.
By coincidence, they all seem to be Philips of various kinds. We have Philip Pullman talking about the responsibilities of being a writer, three poems by the ubiquitous Phill Jupitus and an interview with the psychologist, Adam Phillips, plus our editor, Philip Davis, lighting fires and being encouragingly astringent along the way.
Fear not, the Phils haven't taken over entirely: you will find new fiction by Melvyn Bragg; Les Murray's choice of the best ten Australian poems; Blake Morrison's full article on The Reader Organisation's Get Into Reading programme; Ian MacMillan of The Verb (BBC R3); Myra Schneider, Morgan Meis, Tessa Hadley, Josie Dixon and many others.
Readers Connect is reborn with a panel of five readers giving us their ratings for Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Plus reviews, recommendations and all our regular features, including the new regular ‘The Old Poem'. Brian Nellist introduces Sir Walter Raleigh's ‘Like Truthless Dreams'. Enid Stubin writes from the heart in her latest ‘Our Spy in NY'.