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Don't Judge the Reader by the Book Cover

Cathy Rentzenbrink | Posted 14.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
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Cathy Rentzenbrink

This feeling that reading is for the elite, the people who get it, is so damaging. Not only in excluding those who don't read that often but particularly to the one in six adults of working age in the UK who struggle with literacy.

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Falling Back in Love With Reading

Sarah Pylas | Posted 25.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Books, Reading, Itunes, Enid Blyton, Galaxy Quick Reads, Maternity Leave, Children, E Books, Parenting, Culture, Home News
Sarah Pylas

Like most pregnant women, I had envisioned my maternity leave being the time when I would finally get round to reading all those classics gathering dust on our bookshelf. I even thought I might have a bit of time to write a book of my own! Oh, how naïve I was...

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Giving Everyone an Excuse to Read

Lucy Meadmore | Posted 04.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Alexander McCall Smith, Literacy, Galaxy Quick Reads, UK Reading Standard, Maeve Binchy, UK Books, UK Culture, UK Schools, Reading, Tony Parsons, Lynda La Plante, Home News
Lucy Meadmore

So if I told you that 12 million people in the UK have difficulties with reading and writing, would you believe me? If I also told you that over one third of the population in this country don't pick up a book - would you believe that? - It's pretty shocking isn't it? And it's true.

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