The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming
and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved
writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to
the Give a Book charity In this delightful collection forty-three
acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in
literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue
to do so. Original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G.
Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Gray,
Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam,
Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette
Winterson, while this new edition includes essays from five new
writers, Emily Berry, Kamila Shamsie, Rory Stewart, Katie
Waldegrave and Tom Wells. Royalties generated from this project
will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org.uk, a charity set up in
2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of
particular benefit. Give a Book works in conjunction with Age UK,
Prison Reading Groups, Maggie's Centres, which help people affected
by cancer, and various schools and literacy projects, such as
Beanstalk, where many pupils have never had a book of their own in
their lives.
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