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Author: Ella Blacksell

Reading Group Roundup: Klara and the Sun

17 Oct 2025

Reading Group Roundup: Klara and the Sun

This month the report comes from HMP Wandsworth where one of the PRG groups read…

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Robert Harris Visits HMP Wormwood Scrubs

10 Sep 2025

Robert Harris Visits HMP Wormwood Scrubs

A memorable occasion for the Leviathans book club at HMP Wormwood Scrubs this month, to…

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Reading Group Roundup: Small Things Like These

8 Aug 2025

Reading Group Roundup: Small Things Like These

It’s a very short book, first published in 2021 and then adapted in 2024 as…

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Sebastian Faulks visits HMP Wandsworth

9 Jul 2025

Sebastian Faulks visits HMP Wandsworth

PRG supports three reading groups at Wandsworth and with help from one of our brilliant…

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Reading Group Roundup: The Donor

17 Jun 2025

Reading Group Roundup: The Donor

The report this month comes from HMP Frankland where members of the Champions for Reading…

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Book review from a Prison Reading Group member: Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give

3 Jun 2025

Book review from a Prison Reading Group member: Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give

There’s something really weird I do when I fall in love with a good book,…

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Reflections from an Unlocked Graduate: a first-hand account of a work placement with Give a Book and PRG

19 May 2025

Reflections from an Unlocked Graduate: a first-hand account of a work placement with Give a Book and PRG

As a participant on the Unlocked Grads scheme, I work as a full-time Prison Officer…

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Reading Group Roundup: Rebecca

10 Apr 2025

Reading Group Roundup: Rebecca

The report this month comes from Wandsworth, where one of the groups chose Daphne du…

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Reading Group Roundup: The Beach

21 Feb 2025

Reading Group Roundup: The Beach

The report this month comes from Standford Hill where the group read Alex Garland’s The…

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Reading Group Roundup: A Walk in the Woods

10 Dec 2024

Reading Group Roundup: A Walk in the Woods

The Standford Hill group tackled Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, an account of…

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Reading Group Roundup: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

1 Oct 2024

Reading Group Roundup: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. Christopher is fifteen…

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Reading Group Roundup: This is How You Lose the Time War

30 Jul 2024

Reading Group Roundup: This is How You Lose the Time War

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. The…

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