Road to Reading returns after helping 1 in 2 improve their reading focus last year
The Reading Agency today announced the return of its highly successful Road to Reading initiative as part of the annual…
Category: Reading Inspiration
How To Get into Reading
If you’re someone who has always wanted to get into reading but didn’t know where to start, you’re in the right place! Read our tips to unlock the joy of reading.
The Women’s Prizes announce the Inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist
The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – the inaugural international celebration of women’s non-fiction writing – today unveils the shortlist for its 2024 Prize featuring six titles with an originality of voice and an ability to turn complex ideas and personal trauma into inventive, compelling and immersive prose.
Inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Announces Longlist
The Women’s Prize Trust announces the Longlist for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Reading Friends: creating connections in 2022/23
From 2022 to 2023, Reading Friends worked with 39 UK authorities and their delivery partners to make a positive difference to individual lives and whole communities – creating meaningful connections, reducing loneliness and improving wellbeing.
Teachers Reading Challenge 2022: living and breathing reading in South Ayshire
In January 2023, The Reading Agency spoke to Ashley G., a primary teacher working with P6/7 pupils in South Ayrshire about her…
Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song wins the Booker Prize 2023
Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s ‘triumph of emotional storytelling’ wins the Booker Prize 2023.
Summer Reading Challenge: Reach and Engagement 2023
The 2023 Summer Reading Challenge: ‘Ready, Set, Read!’, delivered in partnership with libraries and the Youth Sport Trust, once again brought the fun and benefits of reading to families across the UK.
Halik Kochanski wins the 2023 Wolfson History Prize
Halik Kochanski, has been named the winner of the Wolfson History Prize this evening for her sweeping history of resistance in wartime Europe: _Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-45_.
Tottenham Literature Festival 2023 – Big Read
The Bernie Grant Arts Centre, in partnership with The Reading Agency will be giving away 400 books, free to the local community in Tottenham as part of the Tottenham Literature Festival 2023.
