Lee Child visits Preston as short books reach readers in prison
The visit reported on 16 October marks a Quick Reads delivery. Writing.ie updated the wider programme on 17 October.
Lee Child visited Preston prison to mark the delivery of free books selected with prisoners and staff. Reported on 16 October by the Lancashire Evening Post, the visit puts a concrete face on The Reading Agency’s programme to distribute almost half a million Quick Reads across UK prisons this autumn. Writing.ie published an update on 17 October.
The collection itself is not a new announcement: the organisation presented its eleven titles on 31 July. The recent development is the books’ arrival and the author’s visit. Child’s High Heat features among a selection combining thrillers and fiction with other genres. The short format aims to make stories easier to enter without compromising the quality of the writing.