key press appearances

Why Reading Fiction with Friends is Therapeutic Too, Guardian (Lynsey Hanley, 1st February 2013)

Calderstones base will help group to promote the joys of literature, Liverpool Daily Post (Alan Weston, 17th January 2013)

Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals, The Telegraph (Julie Henry, 13th January 2013)

New era dawns for historic Calderstones Mansion House, Liverpool Echo (Alan Weston, 12th January 2013)

‘Storytelling: How Reading Aloud is Back in Fashion’, The Observer (Elizabeth Day, 6th January 2013)

‘How One Charity is Tackling Complex Mental Health Problems Using the Simple Power of Reading’, The Huffington Post UK (Sam Parker, 5th November 2012)

‘Pick of the Crop: Children’s Books’, The Financial Times (James Lovegrove, 29th June 2012)

‘The Reader Organisation: A mutual improvement society for modern times’, The Guardian (Wayne Gooderham, 27th June 2012)

‘Big Books and Small Marvels’, Adults Learning, NIACE (Paul Stanistreet, Spring 2012)

‘Changemaker: Jane Davis, MBE, Founder of The Reader’, Spark Magazine (Fiona McClymont, 6th March 2012)

‘Great Expectations: 6 Ways to Ring in Dickens’ Bicentennial’, Time Magazine (Megan Gibson, 18^th January 2012)

‘Launch of Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistics Systems’, The Financial (17^th November 2011)

‘The Unforgotten Coat, By Frank Cottrell Boyce’, The Independent (Nicholas Tucker, 12^th October 2011)

‘Frank Cottrell Boyce reads his new book The Unforgotten Coat to Merseyside youngsters on a special train trip to London’, Bootle Times, (Catherine Jones, 4^th March 2011)

‘The power of words’, The Irish Times (Ann Marie Hourihane, 22^nd January 2011)

‘The rhyme and reason of reading to dementia patients’, The Society Guardian (Judy Friedberg, 6^th October 2010)

‘The Joy of Reading Out Loud’, The Times (Jeanette Winterson, 2^nd October 2010)

‘Well Read’, The Independent (Brian Viner, 14^th August 2010)

‘Words reveal their power when given voice’, The Observer (Robert McCrum, 4^th July 2010)

‘Drawing Comfort and Solace from the Book Well’, The Melbourne Age (Tim Richards, 13^th March 2010)

‘The healing power of books should be taken as read’, The Guardian (Clare Allan, 6^th January 2010)

‘Scenes from a British War on Knowledge’, The Independent (Boyd Tonkin, 9^th October 2009)

‘The Importance of Reading Aloud’, The Times (Damien Barr, 24^th March 2009)

‘The Reading Cure’, The Guardian (Blake Morrison, 8^th January 2008)

‘Word Perfect’, The Guardian (Fay Wertheimer, 19^th October 2005)

television

‘Young Readers’, ITV Granada News, 1st March 2012

We’ve been working with pupils and parents at Egremont Primary School to encourage more of them to read for fun. This news report demonstrates the impact it’s having on the pupils and other members of their family.

‘Sonja Sohn visits Merseyside Community Theatre project’, Channel Four News, 22^nd June 2010

‘Why Reading Matters’, BBC Four, 16^th February 2009

radio

‘Professor Phil Davis on Newshour’, BBC World Service (Phil Davis, 13th January 2013)

‘The Therapy of Reading’, ABC National Radio (Anita Barraud, 2^nd December 2011)

‘Jane Davis on Open Book: The Reader Recommends’, BBC Radio 4 (Jane Davis, 21^st February 2010)

journal articles

Get Into Reading as an intervention for common mental health problems: exploring catalysts for change, Christopher Dowrick, Josie Billington, Jude Robinson, Andrew Hamer, Clare Williams, Medical Humanities, February 2012.

The Art of Medicine, J Davis, The Lancet, Vol 373, February 2009 (pp. 714-5)