The State of the Nation’s Adult Reading: 2024 Report
Half of all adults in the UK don’t read regularly, and 1 in 6 – that’s 8.5 million – struggles…
Half of all adults in the UK don’t read regularly, and 1 in 6 – that’s 8.5 million – struggles…
Six enticing Quick Reads titles from well loved authors have been announced by The Reading Agency for publication on 1 February 2018.
Ann Cleeves will name a character in one of her new books after the winner of our next Reading Ahead prize draw, as part of the celebrations for the programme’s 10th anniversary.
We expect this year’s Challenge, Animal Agents, to attract three quarters of a million children into libraries over the summer break
Reading Friends is being co-produced with older people, including people with dementia, carers and disabled people. Katie Pekacar blogs on what’s involved in developing a new programme.
Reading Well for long term conditions, available in libraries from this month, has been developed in partnership between The Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians
Translated books account for only 3.5% of literary fiction published. We work with the Man Booker International Prize to help translated fiction reach new audiences.
Nada Savitch, a befriending and safeguarding specialist, blogs about her work on our Reading Friends programme, which aims to empower, engage and connect vulnerable and isolated older people through social reading activities.
Our survey, commissioned to mark World Book Night on Sunday 23 April, suggests huge numbers of us are hankering after more reading time.
Author Vaseem Khan blogs on why initiatives such as World Book Night are so important.
Manchester Reading Ahead launches today, to inspire more people in Manchester to get reading as part of the Read Manchester campaign from Manchester City Council and the National Literacy Trust.
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