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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><i><b> Quick Reads</b></i> is a series of short books by bestselling authors and celebrities. With no more than 200 pages, they are designed to encourage adults who do not read often or find reading difficult to discover the joy of books.

</p><p>Quick Reads are a collaboration among publishers, supermarkets, bookshops, libraries, government departments, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (<a href="NIACE" title="NIACE">NIACE</a>), <a href="Arts_Council_England" title="Arts Council England">Arts Council England</a>, the <a href="BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, <a href="World_Book_and_Copyright_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="World Book and Copyright Day">World Book Day</a>, National Book Tokens and more. They are used as a resource for <a href="Adult_literacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult literacy">adult literacy</a> teaching and have been used in <a href="Skills_for_Life" title="Skills for Life">Skills for Life</a> and <a href="English_for_Speakers_of_Other_Languages" class="mw-redirect" title="English for Speakers of Other Languages">ESOL</a> classes in colleges, community centres, libraries, prisons and workplaces. They have also been used in hospitals, stroke recovery units, dyslexia centres, care homes, family learning groups, pre-schools, organisations working with homeless people and traveller communities, and Army and RAF bases.

</p><p>In 2018, the program was due to end because of a lack of funding. <a href="Jojo_Moyes" title="Jojo Moyes">Jojo Moyes</a> offered the group an additional three years of funding.<sup id="cite_ref-jojo_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jojo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>Quick Reads were launched in the UK and Ireland by the then <a href="Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> on <a href="World_Book_and_Copyright_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="World Book and Copyright Day">World Book Day</a> 2006. Through mid-2020, over 100 titles have been published, over 4.8 million copies have been sold and over 5 million copies have been loaned through libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-jojo_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jojo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Featured authors have included <a href="Gordon_Ramsay" title="Gordon Ramsay">Gordon Ramsay</a>, <a href="Chris_Ryan" title="Chris Ryan">Chris Ryan</a>, <a href="Danny_Wallace_(humorist)" title="Danny Wallace (humorist)">Danny Wallace</a>, <a href="Andy_McNab" title="Andy McNab">Andy McNab</a>, <a href="Ricky_Tomlinson" title="Ricky Tomlinson">Ricky Tomlinson</a>, <a href="John_Simpson_(journalist)" title="John Simpson (journalist)">John Simpson</a>, <a href="Colin_Jackson" title="Colin Jackson">Colin Jackson</a>, <a href="Scott_Quinnell" title="Scott Quinnell">Scott Quinnell</a>, <a href="Adele_Parks" title="Adele Parks">Adele Parks</a>, <a href="Kerry_Katona" title="Kerry Katona">Kerry Katona</a>, <a href="Minette_Walters" title="Minette Walters">Minette Walters</a>, <a href="Joanna_Trollope" title="Joanna Trollope">Joanna Trollope</a>, <a href="Alvin_Hall" title="Alvin Hall">Alvin Hall</a>, and <a href="Rolf_Harris" title="Rolf Harris">Rolf Harris</a>. The initiative also features seven books based on the popular <i><a href="Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> series.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An incomplete list of titles can be found on the Quick Reads website.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>Quick Reads are available from supermarkets, bookshops and online retailers for £1.99. They can also be ordered direct from publishers and wholesalers.

</p><p>There are special offers for employers and for family reading breakfast organisers, and in 2010 the new titles were available as eBooks for the first time.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wales">Wales</h2></div>

<p>The project in <a href="Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> is also known as <b>Quick Reads</b> or <b>Stori Sydyn</b> in <a href="Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>. Each year four books are published in Welsh, and four in English, by Welsh authors or celebrities. The campaign in Wales uses the same branding as the campaign in England, but it is bilingual. Funding for this comes from the <a href="Welsh_National_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh National Assembly">Welsh National Assembly</a> via Basic Skills Cymru, part of the National Basic Skills Strategy.

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180706151516/https://readingagency.org.uk/adults/quick-guides/quick-reads/">"The Reading Agency, retrieved September 10, 2020"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://readingagency.org.uk/adults/quick-guides/quick-reads/">the original</a> on July 6, 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 10,</span> 2020</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130110051121/http://www.quickreads.org.uk/content/doctor-who-magic-angels">"Doctor Who: Magic of the Angels"</a>. Quick Reads website. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.quickreads.org.uk/content/doctor-who-magic-angels">the original</a> on 2013-01-10.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.quickreads.org.uk/about-the-books/quick-reads-backlist">"Quick Reads Backlist"</a>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.quickreads.org.uk">Quick Reads Initiative website</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quickreads.moonfruit.com/">Quick Reads Initiative Wales</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise">BBC Skillswise for Quick Reads audio recordings and downloads</a></li></ul>

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