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Quick Reads

Quick reads

If you want to gain confidence in reading or are too busy to read long books, Quick Reads are for you.

Quick Reads are short and exciting books written by popular authors. There is plenty to choose from to suit your tastes: adventure stories, crime stories, fantasy, humour, and football stories.

Our new set of Quick Read titles are:

A Cool Head

A cool head

by

Ian Rankin

Kate Moss

The cave

by

Kate Mosse

Dragon den

Dragons’ Den:  Your road to success

by

Duncan Bannatyne, et al

The dare

The Dare

by

John Boyne

All those lonely people

All these lonely people

by

Gervase Phinn

Sherrie hewson

The Tannery

by

Sherrie Hewson

Catrin collier

Black-Eyed Devils

by

Catrin Collier

101 ways

101 Ways to get your child to read

by

Patience Thomson

Reaching for the stars

Reaching for the stars

by

Lola Jaye

dr who

Doctor Who: The Sontaran games

by

Jacqueline Rayner

Quick Reads are available in the following libraries: Central, Highworth, Liden, Moredon & Rodbourne Cheney, North Swindon, Park, Penhill, Pinehurst, West Swindon, Upper Stratton.

You can reserve titles free of charge through our online catalogue. You can find these titles by typing ‘Quick Reads’ into the search category.

If you are new to reading, or getting back into the reading habit, you may also wish to try our ‘Six Book Challenge

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