A Little, Aloud

There's no doubt that reading aloud together about other's lives makes it possible to think and talk about our own in new ways... All the better if what is read is gracefully and perceptively written ... To bring together, as this anthology does, pieces that lend themselves to reading aloud, the editors have made a most generous and welcome contribution

Tim Parks

I've always known that reading aloud was one of the paths to greater happiness in life. It's rather pleasing to hear of research backing this up convincingly. But reading aloud isn't medicine to be swallowed to make one feel better. It's pleasure. Pure pleasure

Stephen Fry

Reading aloud brings health and happiness: guaranteed! I urge you to buy this book, read the wonderful (and funny, surprising, thought-provoking) pieces collected here to someone you care for and see the results for yourself

Fiona Phillips

I read to stroke victims so know first-hand the power of good that reading aloud can do. This first-rate collection is a real treasure trove and I can't recommend it highly enough

Richard Briers

A Little, Aloud is wonderful...a luscious, challenging enticement to read and hear and share the love of doing both. We don't read with the eye only. Until we hear literature we don't possess it. This anthology is more than a collection of good writing, it wakens the ear to what good writing is

Howard Jacobson

Being read to is the beguiling beginning of learning to love reading - it opens the door to absolutely everything and anything we might want to do in life

Joanna Trollope

The Reader Organisation is doing something no one else is doing on a such a scale and in such an inventive and thoughtful way: bringing books to people and people to books in a way that will change their lives for the better

Raymond Tallis

Reading aloud is an activity that everyone can take part in. It sharpens the intellect, invigorates the imagination and enlarges the scope of human sympathy. If we all read aloud every day, the world would be a better place

Philip Pullman

An interesting reminder of how we all bring our very different experiences into reading literature, and contribute in a mysterious readerly way to its great richness of meaning...a salutary reminder of its power of comfort and healing

John Fuller

This is the best cause in the world

Jane Gardam

Reading aloud you give a voice - your voice - to the text on the page. You bring the page to life. And being read to - what an abundantly enriching pleasure that is! All those other lives entering your own.

David Constantine

This book is an incredible invention, and like all great inventions, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it

Maureen Lipman