News from inside
We’re very pleased that we’ll be getting regular feedback from the Prison Reading Groups that... Read More
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Poems in the waiting room
Once, waiting, I read ‘Thaw’ by Edward Thomas: Over the land half-freckled with snow half-thawed The... Read More
Reading and mental health
There was an article in the UK Huffington Post recently about the real benefits of... Read More
Happy Birthday to The Reading Agency
The excellent organisation The Reading Agency is 10 years old. The Reading Agency is a... Read More
Jeanette Winterson on Reading
In her wonderful memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson writes: “Books,... Read More
The key to happy ever after
F.R.Tallis, clinical psychologist and novelist, wrote an extremely interesting article for The Times (6th August... Read More
God bless Reading Groups
“It’s hard to train for freedom in a cage” is just one of the memorable... Read More
more about Prison Reading Groups
We have had an account of one of the Prison Reading Groups, see below, sent... Read More
Prison Reading Groups
We’re delighted to announce that we now give books to Prison Reading Groups through the excellent... Read More
Where the books go…..
Give a Book recently sent books to the Harris Academy, Greenwich. They are going to send... Read More
London reads Oliver Twist
London’s City Reads is Oliver Twist, appropriately enough in this Dickens anniversary year. There are events all over... Read More
How do we keep children reading?
Philip Pullman in The Times 29 Sept 2012 says: “Short of a universal power blackout,... Read More
Bookshops are so not over…..
An interesting article in The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/how-to-plug-a-bookshop-are-independent-retailers-doomed-to-fail-8131310.html Why did nobody think of this before? Just... Read More
Children read less……
Another trenchant research document from the excellent National Literacy Trust reveals that fewer children than... Read More