Social Media Book Images 2025
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Quick Reads are short books and great stories by bestselling authors, written in an accessible and easy to read style.
Now entering its 19th year, Quick Reads is a flagship initiative to help new readers access the power of reading and lapsed readers get back into the habit.
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A Boy Called Saul by Fiona Cummins
Pan Macmillan
A Boy Called Saul, follows the clever but troubled teenager with a dark past, Saul Anguish. A grim discovery on an island near his home town in Essex leads Saul, and a former police detective, to look back to the past when the pair met two years earlier when a five-year-old was kidnapped by a serial killer, whose evil deeds left scars on them all.
A New Year by Leila Aboulela
Saqi Books
A New Year, follows the story of widow Suad, who moves in with her son’s family in the Scottish countryside, until relations break down with her daughter-in-law as they clash over their different approach to tradition, values, and duty, leaving Suad alone to learn to live as an independent woman.
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (abridged)
Penguin Random House
A Rising Man is an abridged version of the first book in the Wyndham detective series. The historical crime novel set in India in 1919 received rave reviews, with Ian Rankin dubbing it ‘A thought provoking rollercoaster’.
This book is set in the 1920s, during British rule in India. Some characters use language that is nowadays considered offensive or inappropriate, but which is used here to help us to understand this period of history.
The Mind Manual by Dr Alex George (abridged)
Octopus
The Mind Manual: Mental Fitness Tools for Everyone helps readers assess their mental health, complete with a mental health toolkit to help readers thrive.
Learn how to assess your mental health today and understand what’s normal for you. Discover the seven universal truths that everyone should remember, and the mental fitness foundations that will boost you.
The Surprise Visitor by Cathy Bramley
Orion
Kind-hearted Jo Potter and fun-loving Eve Langton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Despite not seeing each other for a few years, they keep in touch every day with texts and calls. They’d love to meet up face-to-face, but life keeps getting in the way; they are both just so busy!
When Eve finds herself stranded in the town where Jo lives, she decides to surprise her friend with a spur-of-the-moment visit. But what should have been a lovely reunion is fraught with awkward moments when it quickly becomes clear that both women have been hiding huge secrets from one another. As Jo and Eve realise the size of each other’s lies, their relationship is tested to breaking point. But true friends will be there for each other forever, won’t they…?
Write It All Down by Cathy Rentzenbrink (abridged)
Bluebird
Write It All Down (abridged) is a guide to putting your life on the page. It offers a compendium of advice to help writers discover the pleasure and solace found in writing. The helpful handbook steers the reader through the philosophical and practical challenges of writing, intertwined with reflections and exercises.
This book contains swearing.
Resources
2025 Quick Read Discussion Guide - Write It All Down
This guide includes a range of questions that can be used to prompt and facilitate discussion around one of this year's Quick Reads.
