National Year of Reading: quick update

I've added a new tab to our Web Catalogue for the National Year of Reading.

At the moment there are two pages:

• NYR: a list of National Year of Reading resources and reading list links based on the Ultimate Book Guide
• Themes: reading list links based on the monthly themes

Read all about it

Here's one where I ask you for help:

I'm putting together some National Year of Reading-themed reading lists for the Web Catalogue. The "Read all about it" theme obviously suggests print journalism so that's what I'm going along with. I can find lots of non-fiction but I'm struggling with fiction: I want to include books with journalists as the main protagonists or with a press setting. Aside from "Scoop," which we have in reserve stock, all I could think of were some of the works of Edgar Wallace and E.Phillips Oppenheimer (betraying my vintage) which we don't have at all. (If you have to ask who they are you're too young to know). Oh, and Superman because Clark Kent's a reporter.

Any ideas?

The National Year of Reading

2008 is The National Year of Reading, a celebration of words and reading in every form: from novels to song lyrics, from poetry to film scripts.

From April to December events and activities linked to The National Year of Reading will have a monthly theme:

• April: Read all about it!
• May: Mind and body
• June: Reading escapes
• July: Rhythm and rhyme
• August: Read the game
• September: You are what you read
• October: Word of Mouth
• November: Screen reads
• December: Write the future

Look out for National Year of Reading events in a library near you!