Category: Quotes
Val McDermid
Ten days of tension, trouble and tough truths . . . a cracker
Read MoreRivers of London
My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking…
Read MoreOliver Twist
A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world,…
Read MoreBoris Johnson, former Mayor of London
Cityread London is a terrific scheme to promote reading across the capital, by focusing on a single book that features our great city….
Read MoreKathy Settle, CEO Libraries Taskforce
I am thrilled that public libraries across London have been able to support the Cityread London scheme. […] I hope many more people…
Read MoreCarol Boswarthack, President/Chair of the ALCL
Cityread, the only reading programme that aims to bring together all the capital’s libraries, communities and customers via the medium of a single…
Read MoreLaia Gasch, Special Advisor GLA Culture
Cityread is a fantastic way of getting Londoners to read and engage with the city through the fictional stories and characters set amidst…
Read MoreJonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust
The vision of Cityread is compelling and exciting: The world’s greatest city united in a shared month of reading a great book.
Read MoreLouisa Young, author of Cityread 2014
Cityread, under the imaginative, clever and ridiculously hard-working Andy Ryan, is an all-round winner. A project such as Cityread which brings together London’s…
Read MoreBen Aaronovitch, author of Cityread 2015
Cityread showed me the whole of London, literally, and it is a huge, beautiful, book reading city.
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