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Home • pleasure of reading

Archive: pleasure of reading

“The work you do really isn’t just simply, giving a book.” Our year at Larkspur Primary.

2020 was a difficult year, children missed months of school and when Larkspur approached us… Read More

Choosing books

Manorfield School reading project

With the help of Near Neighbours and the Church Urban Fund we have been able to provide training… Read More

A guest blog from Toppsta

Over the last few months we’ve been lucky to receive some wonderful giveaways from Toppsta,… Read More

Reading Ahead

Since 2013 Give a Book has been involved with the Reading Ahead programme run by… Read More

The Comfort of Poetry by Rachel Kelly

Rachel Kelly is a writer and mental health campaigner. She speaks publicly about her experience of… Read More

Give a History Book at the Chalke Valley History Festival

To coincide with the Chalke Valley History Festival, Give a Book are excited to announce… Read More

A Place to Read

So where do you read? In a wheelbarrow, on a swing, in the park, in… Read More

The Reader Org Annual Conference

It’s almost that time of year again.  The wonderful Reader Organisation  holds their Annual Conference… Read More

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Reading for Pleasure

Neil Gaiman gave the second annual lecture for The Reading Agency the other day. Miranda McKearney… Read More

More news from inside…Chibundu Onuzo at a prison reading group.

Chibundu  Onuzo’s  The Spider King’s Daughter is a first novel of degrading poverty and fabulous… Read More

The importance of instilling a need to read

A characteristically trenchant and excellent article in The Telegraph the other day by Jonathan Douglas  Director… Read More

Here, they don’t have to be prisoners…

There was an interesting account by Ros Coward in The Guardian 15th January 2013 of… Read More

God bless Reading Groups

“It’s hard to train for freedom in a cage” is just one of the memorable… 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

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