Mike Gayle has been appointed Patron of the Reading Agency’s new national Six Book Challenge, which launches this month to coincide with the 2008 National Year of Reading. Run in association with the Costa Book Awards, the Six Book Challenge is targeted at adults who want to improve their literacy skills and invites people to read six books “whilst supporting them with incentives and creative reading activity”. It forms part of the Reading Agency’s Vital Link programme for libraries.
Gayle, an agony uncle and freelance journalist as well as author, said he was “absolutely thrilled” to have been asked to be Patron. “I look forward to the initiative making a real difference to those who have felt excluded from the world of books,” he said.
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