Eight new Quick Reads were published 14th April, 2022, as part of the World Book Night celebrations and giveaway. These titles are available for purchase online an in-store.

Ordering the Titles

• Use the links below to order Quick Reads in paperbook, eBook and audiobook from a range of retailers.
• This year's Quick Reads are also be available in Poundland, Sainsbury's, Waterstones and WHSmith, as well as the online retailers linked below.
• To support The Reading Agency and independent bookshops, place your order through Bookshop.org or Hive.
• Order Quick Reads for a public library through your usual library supplier, such as Askews or Gardners.

MW Craven, The Cutting Season (Hachette, Constable (Little Brown)
ISBN: 9781472135193
A dark and twisted crime Quick Read following the beloved Poe and Tilly.

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Paula Hawkins, Blind Spot (PRH, Transworld)
ISBN: 9781529176636
Since they were kids, Edie, Jake and Ryan have been the closest of friends. It's been the three of them against the world. Edie thought the bonds between them were unbreakable. So when Jake is brutally murdered and Ryan accused of the crime, her world is shattered.

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Ayisha Malik, Sofia Khan and the Baby Blues (Hachette, Headline)
ISBN: 9781472284570
This book follows Ayisha Malik's much loved character Sofia who has been dubbed the 'Muslim Bridget Jones'. Here we join Sofia as she navigates life, love and the high expectations of her mother!

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Santa Montefiore, The Kiss (S&S)
ISBN: 9781398505544
Madison has always known she had a different father to her siblings. But it wasn't until she turned eighteen that she learned his name. And now she wants to meet the man who shares her fair hair and blue eyes.

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Kate Mosse, The Black Mountain (Macmillan)
ISBN: 9781529088465
A Quick Read story set in eighteenth-century Tenerife, under the shadow of a vast volcano that is on the brink or eruption...

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Graham Norton, The Swimmer (Hachette, Hodder)
ISBN: 9781529388015
This compelling and heart warming story is set on the beautiful Irish coast and follows Helen as her life is about to change...

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Lemn Sissay, My Name is Why (Abridged) (Canongate, Faber)
ISBN: 9781838854645
My Name is Why is a true story about growing up in care and fighting to succeed despite the cruelty and failures of the care system.

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Alex Wheatle, Witness (Profile, Faber)
ISBN: 9781788168342
To tell the truth? Or protect his family? Cornell is having a bad time. Kicked out of secondary school for a fight he didn't start, he finds himself in a Pupil Referral Unit. Here he makes friends with one of the Sinclair family. You don't mess with the Sinclairs.

Bookshop.org
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk
WHSmith

Get Involved

• Find out more about the impact of Quick Reads
• Order free promotional materials for organisations to promote World Book Night and Quick Reads 2022.
• Browse the available learning resources, book group discussion guides and promotional posters and videos in the Quick Reads resources database