Six exciting new Quick Reads titles are publishing today as part of an annual initiative by The Reading Agency. 

The Quick Reads initiative, now part of The Reading Agency, is teaming up with the TUC’s learning and skills organisation, Unionlearn, to help adults and children to escape the “reading deficit trap” – by bringing the proven benefits of reading for pleasure to workplaces across the UK. 

Three internationally celebrated writers will be spotlighted at The London Book Fair 2017 (14-16 March), with an Author of the Day line-up set to include bestselling author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo, Man Booker prize winning novelist Roddy Doyle and eminent Polish author Olga Tokarczuk,  the country’s most widely translated female writer.

From award-winning breakfast radio star Christian O’Connell comes a brilliant, fresh and laugh-out-loud story of an ordinary boy with an extraordinary secret radio show…broadcast from his shed.

Kill The Next One, published 26 January 2016 by Text Publishing in paperback, is an audacious, immersive psychological thriller in which nothing is what it seems.

The integral role books play within the creative industries as an inspiration for plays, films, TV and games will be recognised by a new award created by London Book & Screen Week and the UK Publishers Association. 

The journalist and broadcaster Andrew Marr is to chair the jury of the 2017 Forward Prizes for Poetry, which will be awarded at the Royal Festival Hall on 21 September 2017. 

Ruby Wax’s smart and witty A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled has been named the #1 Sunday Times bestseller for the second week in a row.

David Nicholls, one of the UK’s leading figures in literature, TV and film, has been announced as Ambassador for this year’s London Book & Screen Week (13-19 March 2017), the capital’s biggest ever celebration of books and the films, TV programmes and virtual worlds they inspire. 

A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax is out now.