The Big Sporting Read – a new national celebration of reading – has announced its list of 25 titles celebrating a landmark summer of sport, including Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals. The list was unveiled by The Reading Agency and BBC Arts at the first Hay Festival Sports day.
On the initiative, the Reading Agency say: “There is significant evidence that accessing reading through interests such as sport increases people’s engagement with books more widely. Data from The Reading Agency shows that sports-themed content used in previous programmes has been a key driver of getting people of all ages across the UK involved in reading-related activity, with four in five librarians agreeing that a sports theme brought new audiences into the library.”
Read more at the Reading Agency website.