Quick Reads 2014 titles announced

The new list of Galaxy® Quick Reads titles is announced today, to coincide with International Literacy Day on Sunday 8 September.

The Quick Reads 2014 titles, which will officially launch on 14 February, are:

* Four Warned by Jeffrey Archer (Pan Books)
* Blackout by Emily Barr (Headline Review)
* A Cruel Fate by Lindsey Davis (Hodder and Stoughton)
* Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero by Harriet Evans (HarperColllins)
* The Escape by Lynda La Plante (Simon and Schuster)
* Hidden by Barbara Taylor Bradford (HarperColllins)

Since its launch in 2006, the Quick Reads initiative has loaned more than 3 million books through libraries and distributed over 4.3 million books through supermarkets, bookshops, workplaces and prisons.

Get involved

* Quick Reads are great for using on our Six Book Challenge programme. Find out more about the Six Book Challenge here

* Follow Quick Reads on Twitter

Check back soon for more ways you can use Quick Reads with your reading group!

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