The Pleasure of Reading

In this delightful collection forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Gray, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from five new writers, Emily Berry, Kamila Shamsie, Rory Stewart, Katie Waldegrave and Tom Wells.Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, , a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of particular benefit. Give a Book works in conjunction with Age UK, Prison Reading Groups, Maggie's Centres, which help people affected by cancer, and various schools and literacy projects, such as Beanstalk, where many pupils have never had a book of their own in their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Fraser Antonia, Antonia Fraser, Lady Antonia Fraser, Victoria Gray
• Assisted by: Antonia Fraser (Editor), Lady Antonia Fraser (Editor), Victoria Gray (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9781408859629
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-5962-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturgeschichte, Literaturkritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form