Roddy Doyle and JoJo Moyes add short stories to the GALAXY® Quick Reads series, helping people to rediscover the pleasure of
reading
On 4 February 2015, six new GALAXY® Quick Reads books written by renowned authors will launch, aimed at helping adults across the UK rediscover the pleasure
of reading.
Priced at just £1, the GALAXY® Quick Reads
titles are the same as mainstream books in every respect but simply shorter and
easier to tackle for adults who are either less confident in their reading
skills or over time have become lapsed readers. Previous high profile authors who have penned Galaxy
Quick Reads titles include Jeffrey Archer, Lynda La Plante and Andy McNab.
Founded in 2006, the Quick Reads
initiative was launched to help the country’s one in six adults of working age
who have difficulty reading, as well as the one in three adults who do not read
for pleasure. Through demonstrating that
books and reading can be for everyone, Quick Reads has now distributed over
4.3million books to libraries, workplaces, hospitals, schools, parents, family
groups and even prisons, where literacy continues to be significantly low.
2015 will see another bumper crop
of well known and much loved writing talent join the Quick Reads authors before
them. This year’s participating authors are
Roddy Doyle, Jojo Moyes, Sophie Hannah, Fanny Blake, Adèle Geras and James Bowen. Between them, their Quick Reads titles cover
a range of different themes from a holiday romance to a true story based on a
homeless man and his cat.
The
2015 Quick Reads titles
Dead Man Talking by Roddy Doyle
Pat had been best friends with
Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a fight . A big one.
And they haven’t spoke since – until the day before Joe’s funeral. What? On the
day before his funeral Joe would be dead, wouldn’t he? Yes he would…
Paris for
Nell is twenty-six and has never
been to Paris. She has never even been on a weekend away with her boyfriend.
Everyone knows she is just not the adventurous type. But, when her boyfriend
doesn’t turn up for their romantic mini-break, Nell has the chance to prove
everyone wrong. Alone in Paris, could this turn out to be the most adventurous
weekend of her life?
Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen by Sophie Hannah
After
Chloe and her daughter Freya are rescued from disaster by a man who seems too
good to be true, Chloe decides she must find him again to thank him. But
instead of meeting her knight in shining armour, she comes across a woman
called Nadine Caspian who warns her to stay well away from him. The man is
dangerous, Nadine claims, and a compulsive liar. Alarmed, Chloe asks her what
she means, but Nadine will say no more. Chloe knows that the sensible choice
would be to walk away – after all, she doesn’t know anything about this man.
But she is curious. What could Nadine have meant? And can Chloe find out the
truth without putting herself and her daughter in danger?
Red for Revenge by Fanny Blake
Maggie is married with two
grown-up children. Her twenty-five year old marriage to Phil has lost is
sparkle. Carla is widowed. She understands life is short so she lives it to the
full. But is her new romance all that it
seems? When the two women meet in the beauty salon, they soon find they have
more in common than the colour of their nails… The discovery that they are
sharing the same man is shocking. How will he be taught a lesson or two he
won’t forget?
Out of the Dark by Adèle Geras
Rob Stone
comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a
broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by
the ghost of his dead Captain, all that Rob has left is a picture of the
Captain’s family. Rob sets out to find
them, hoping by giving them the picture, he can bring peace to the Captain’s
ghost – and to his own troubled heart.
Street Cat Bob by James Bowen
When James Bowen found an injured street cat in
the hallway of his sheltered housing, he had no idea just how much his life was
about to change. James had been living on the streets of London and the last
thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn’t resist the clever tomcat, whom he
quickly named Bob.
Galaxy chocolate is a main sponsor for Quick Reads and is committed to supporting the work that Quick Reads does to improve adult literacy skills and encourage the uptake of reading
Quick Reads was launched in 2006. It commissions, publishes and distributes short books by big name authors to help get people reading
Since its launch, Quick Reads has distributed over 4.3m books and there have been over 3.5m library loans
Quick Reads is a World Book Day initiative to support literacy and reading amongst adults
Arts Council England support Quick Reads. It believes that the arts have the power to change lives and communities, and to create opportunities for people throughout the country
Over the past nine years, Quick Reads has introduced millions of people to the pleasure of picking up a book by providing short, books by bestselling writers.
For
more information visit www.quickreads.org.uk
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