Top authors hope you’ll give this book away to change young lives

Philip Pullman, Robert Macfarlane and 21 others give backing to literacy charity Room to Read in new anthology the Gifts of Reading

Books are some of the most powerful objects in existence – and, when they are given away to others, have an infinite capacity to change lives.

That is the central message of a new collection of deeply personal essays about the transformative power of giving, reading and receiving books, written by Robert Macfarlane, Philip Pullman, Roddy Doyle, Michael Ondaatje, Jan Morris and 18 other well-known authors to raise money for the global literacy charity Room to Read.

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