The Reading Agency Roundtable

This is the Year of Reading and i was pleased to take part in a Roundtable hosted by The Reading Agency on 19 May 2026. The CEO Karen Napier reminded us it is 20 years when Quick Reads were established. Gail Rebuck chaired a discussion which included Nick Serota (Arts Council ) William Sieghart, Baroness Twycross, the Minister, DCMS, and the author of a Quick Read, “One False Move” Dreda Say Mitchell (with me in the main picture). The pictures below set out the statistics on the impact of reading.