Education · 5 April 2026
Half a million books being gifted to UK prisons this year
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The Reading Agency is marking 20 years of its Quick Reads campaign by distributing half a million short, accessible books to prisons across the UK. Each title costs just £1 and will be available in audiobook format for the first time this year. Stormzy, whose #Merky Books imprint published one of the titles, called reading 'a superpower' and encouraged non-readers to try one.
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