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Rose Goddard, Project Manager for World Book Night, visits the Homeless Book Club

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Rose Goddard recently visited the Homeless Book Club in Shoreditch, which uses World Book Night titles for its weekly discussions. Read more »

Meet Hackney Libraries' Telephone Reading Group

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Chris Garnsworthy from Hackney Community Library Service tells us about how they set up and run their Telephone Reading Group and the difference it is making to people’s lives: Read more »

Running my first Chatterbooks session

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With Clonclyfrau/Chatterbooks just launching in Wales, Erica Neck tells us about running her first Chatterbooks session for the Mountain Ash Chatterbooks Group: Read more »

Moving up the Hill of Happiness

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The Hill of Happiness Social Read group first started at New Parks Library as an Everybody’s Reading Storycafe. It is based on principles of bibliotherapy – or the ‘reading cure’ – the proposition that reading can heal and has been funded partly by Whatever ItTakes. Leicester Libraries’ Book Doctor, Alison Dunne tells Reading Groups for Everyone more about the group: Read more »

Babes in Arms

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Parents of young children know that at the end of the day, when the little ones are finally tucked up in bed, it’s hard to muster up the energy to do anything more than plonk yourself in front of the TV and zone out. But what about all the things you wish you had the time and energy to do? What about reading a good book? Read more »

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