Quick Reads

Quick Reads is the initiative for adults who have never got the reading bug or who have lost the habit, or indeed avid readers wanting a quick read.

Ten new bite-sized, fast-paced books by leading bestselling writers and celebrities will be published on World Book Day 2010 at £1.99 each so everyone can afford them:

  • Last Night Another Soldier by Andy McNab
  • The Perfect Holiday by Cathy Kelly
  • The Perfect Murder by Peter James
  • Doctor Who: Code of the Krillitanes by Justin Richards
  • Hello Mum by Bernardine Evaristo
  • Money Magic: Seven Simple Steps to True Financial Freedom by Alvin Hall
  • Traitors of the Tower by Alison Weir
  • We Won the Lottery: Real Life Winner Stories by Danny Buckland
  • Life's Too Short: True Stories About Life at Work Foreword by Val McDermid
  • Buster Fleabags by Rolf Harris

Details about how to order the books can be found on the Quick Reads website. Library services which ordered copies by the deadline of 11 January 2010 should have received them by 8 February so should contact their library suppliers if this is not the case. A copy of the library supply schedule can be downloaded here.

Free Quick Reads packs were also available for libraries to order from The Reading Agency shop. The deadline for ordering the packs has now passed.

Please visit the Quick Reads website for more information on the Quick Reads titles and campaign.

We have created two packs to support use of the new Quick Reads in all formal and informal settings with less confident adult readers - the Quick Reads 2010 Guide and a Writing Pack - which are downloadable from this page. You can also download guides to support the Quick Reads published in 2009.

Below we have included downloadable packs created to support all the titles published since 2006. Please contact Genevieve Clarke if you have any comments or questions about these packs.
2008
10 Keys to Success by John Bird
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Judoon by Terrance Dicks
East End Tales by Gilda O'Neill
Girl on the Platform by Josephine Cox
Happy Families by Adele Parks
The Hardest Test by Scott Quinnell
Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay
Life's New Hurdles by Colin Jackson
One Good Turn by Chris Ryan
RaW Voices Ed Vanessa Feltz
The Hardest Test by Scott Quinnell

2007
Starting with Quick Reads

March 2006
Approaches to Reading for Pleasure
The Book Boy by JoannaTrollope
Blackwater by Conn Iggulden
Chickenfeed by Minette Walters
Don't Make Me Laugh by Patrick Augustus
Hell Island by Matthew Reilly
How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps by John Bird
Screw It, Let's Do It by Richard Branson
Someone Like Me by Tom Holt
Star Sullivan by Maeve Binchy
The Team by Mick Dennis
The Thief by Ruth Rendell
Woman Walks into a Bar by Rowan Coleman

May 2006
Further Approaches to Reading for Pleasure
Against the Odds - Desert Claw by Damien Lewis and Winner Takes All by John Francome
Other Worlds - Doctor Who: I am a Dalek by Gareth Roberts and The Poison in the Blood by Tom Holland
Private Passions - Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe by Danny Wallace and I Love Football by Hunter Davies
Revenge is Sweet - Cleanskin by Val McDermid and The Grey Man by Andy McNab
Who Am I? - The Dying Wish by Courttia Newland and The Name You Once Gave Me by Mike Phillips