Quick Reads adult literacy scheme to close following funding cut

The initiative has distributed almost 5m books to readers but is to shut following loss of Arts Council England funding and corporate sponsor

An adult literacy publishing scheme credited with helping thousands of adults to learn to read is to be axed after failing to secure funding, despite almost 5m books being handed out in prisons, hospitals and workplaces since it was launched in 2005.

Publishing fast-paced, entertaining books by authors such as Andy McNab, Mark Billingham, Ann Cleeves and Dorothy Koomson, Quick Reads was established to appeal to the one in six adults with reading difficulties, as well as those who rarely pick up a book.

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