If you were encouraged to read as a child and developed a lifelong love of reading, you’re lucky. Reading turned me into a writer and writing always sends me back to reading. But I know I’m lucky. According to The National Literacy Trust’s 2025 Annual Literacy Survey the number of children and young people who … Read More
Shared Reading
Clean Air: Act. And a poem and a chat
If you’re not as ancient as me you won’t remember the pea-soupers in London: and I’d only been breathing for just under two years at the time so it’s not exactly a memory for me either, but by 1956 The Clean Air Act had been passed to reduce air pollution in the city. It was a … Read More