Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Chris Routledge

Chris Routledge is editor of The Reader Online and works as a freelance writer and editor from a shed in his Lancashire garden. His book about the Robert Cain brewery in Liverpool, Cain's: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint, will be published in 2008

thereaderonline.co.uk

chrisroutledge.co.uk

February 2008

  • Books blog
    When digressions get right to the point

    A really classy writer, like Dashiell Hammett, can make a diversion from their plot lead right to the story's heart

January 2008

  • Books blog
    Let us now praise James Agee

    Eclipsed by Steinbeck, his ferocious portrait of life among American sharecroppers remains the true classic of the Great Depression

December 2007

  • Books blog
    Orwell's bleak midwinter

  • Books blog
    For relevant national stories, readers must go west

Explore more on these topics