17 March 2022
Quick Reads 2022 toolkit for libraries and bookshops
Please use this toolkit for ideas on how to use and promote Quick Reads. Share this toolkit with colleagues and do get in touch to tell us how you’ve used the books!
19 May 2021
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads learning resource
This learning resource has been written to support the use of Quick Reads with less confident readers. It suggests discussion points and activities chapter by chapter. The resource is in an editable word document format as you may find that...
18 May 2021
Saving the Day: Quick Reads learning resource
This learning resource has been written to support the use of Quick Reads with less confident readers. It suggests discussion points and activities chapter by chapter. The resource is in an editable word document format as you may find that...
18 May 2021
The Baby Is Mine: Quick Reads learning resource
This learning resource has been written to support the use of Quick Reads with less confident readers. It suggests discussion points and activities chapter by chapter. The resource is in an editable word document format as you may find that...
18 May 2021
How to be a Woman: Quick Reads learning resource
This learning resource has been written to support the use of Quick Reads with less confident readers. It suggests discussion points and activities chapter by chapter. The resource is in an editable word document format as you may find that...
18 May 2021
The Motive: Quick Reads learning resource
This learning resource has been written to support the use of Quick Reads with less confident readers. It suggests discussion points and activities chapter by chapter. The resource is in an editable word document format as you may find that...
18 May 2021
The Skylight: Quick Reads learning resource
This learning resource has been written to support the use of Quick Reads with less confident readers. It suggests discussion points and activities chapter by chapter. The resource is in an editable word document format as you may find that...
13 May 2021
Quick Reads 2021 Discussion Guides
Use these reader and discussion guides in book groups, Reading Ahead sessions or literacy classes to spark conversation about the six 2021 Quick Reads.
19 May 2020
This Is Going To Hurt: Diary Writing Challenge
This activity sheet has been designed for use alongside reading the Quick Reads version of Adam Kay’s This Is Going To Hurt. It provides inspiration and a framework for starting a diary.
25 September 2019
Quick Reads back catalogue
Quick Reads began in 2006. Since then over 5 million copies of more than 100 titles have been distributed. The books have been loaned more than six million times through libraries. This document contains all of the titles published since 2006...
03 February 2016
The Anniversary by Veronica Henry (ed): Quick Reads learning resource
A learning resource for readers and practitioners to accompany the Quick Read The Anniversary, a collection of short stories by Fanny Blake, Elizabeth Buchan, Rowan Coleman, Jenny Colgan, Philippa Gregory, Matt Haig, Veronica Henry, Andy McNab, Richard Madeley and John...
03 February 2016
The Double Clue by Agatha Christie: Quick Reads learning resource
A learning resource for readers and practitioners to accompany the Quick Read The Double Clue by Agatha Christie
03 February 2016
Too Good to be True by Ann Cleeves: Quick Reads learning resource
A learning resource for readers and practitioners to accompany the Quick Read Too Good to be True by Lucy Diamond
03 February 2016
On the Rock by Andy McNab: Quick Reads learning resource
A learning resource for readers and practitioners to accompany the Quick Read On the Rock by Andy McNab
03 February 2016
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai: Quick Reads learning resource
A learning resource for readers and practitioners to accompany the Quick Read I Am Malala (abridged edition) by Malala Yousafzai
03 February 2016
A Baby at the Beach Cafe by Lucy Diamond Quick Reads learning resource
A learning resource for readers and practitioners to accompany the Quick Read A Baby at the Beach Cafe by Lucy Diamond
11 September 2015
Pictures or it Didn't Happen learning resources
Classroom activities and discussions relating to Pictures or it Didn’t Happen by Sophie Hannah.
09 September 2015
Paris for One learning resources
Classroom activities and discussions relating to Paris for One by Jojo Moyes.
09 September 2015
Out of the Dark learning resources
Classroom activities and discussions relating to Out of the Dark by Adele Geras.
09 September 2015
Hidden learning resources
Classroom activities and discussions relating to Hidden by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
08 September 2015
Four Warned learning resources
Classroom activities and discussions relating to Four Warned by Jeffrey Archer.
08 September 2015
Dead Man Talking learning resources
Classroom activities and discussions relating to Dead Man Talking by Roddy Doyle.
07 September 2015
Blackout learning resources
Classroom activities and discussions relating to Blackout by Emily Barr.
07 September 2015
A Cruel Fate learning resource
Classroom activities and discussions relating to A Cruel Fate by Lindsey Davis.
