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Royal Literary Fund takes reading groups into prisons for National Year of Reading

The charity’s Reading Round groups, which have run in community venues since 2013, will now operate in prisons including HMP Leeds, HMP Liverpool and HMP Brixton.

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HMP Edinburgh Christmas book scheme named Library of the Year

A Secret Santa project that sent gift-wrapped books to prisoners at Christmas won the Library of the Year award at the British Book Awards 2026.

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Inspectors praise nine prisons for building strong reading cultures

HM Inspectorate of Prisons found that governors who made reading a priority had created thriving libraries and schemes. But too many jails still fall short, it warned.