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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17 Jun 2025
Reading Group Roundup: The Donor
The report this month comes from HMP Frankland where members of the Champions for Reading…
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,…
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…
10 Apr 2025
Reading Group Roundup: Rebecca
The report this month comes from Wandsworth, where one of the groups chose Daphne du…
21 Feb 2025
Reading Group Roundup: The Beach
The report this month comes from Standford Hill where the group read Alex Garland’s The…
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…
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…
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…
31 May 2024
Reading Group Roundup: Simon Armitage
The report this month comes from Victoria Barnett, Library Development Manager for five Kent prisons…
2 May 2024
PRG chats to Riverside Radio
We were thrilled to be invited by the Riverside Radio breakfast team to talk about…
28 Mar 2024
Jenni Fagan visits HMP Downview to discuss Ootlin
This month the column comes from Downview where the group had a visit from Scottish author Jenni Fagan. Cathy Wells Cole, who runs the group and was the PRG outstanding volunteer for 2023, tells us how it went.