Quick Reads’ authors speak Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 18:22

Ian Rankin and Patience Thompson

Ian Rankin, one of the UK's leading crime writers, most famous for the Inspector Rebus novels, has written the Quick Read A Cool Head. He talks to NIACE Press Officer, Ed Melia, about his career as a writer, his interest in literacy and why he wrote A Cool Head.

Patience Thomson is a writer, lecturer and expert on reading. She was a head teacher at a school in London for children with specific learning difficulties and she co-founded Barrington Stoke, a publisher of books for reluctant readers. She speaks to Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, about her life helping people to read and her Quick Read - 101 ways to get your child to read .

 

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