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Latest download: The Reader 35, 'Starting the Reading Revolution'
The Reader 35, 'Starting the Reading Revolution', is available to download for free, here as a PDF: The Reader 35; or to view here on scribd.com:
Reader 35
Other issues also available to download (or view at scribd.com):
The Reader 34 'Literature in the Raw' (view at scribd.com).
The Reader 33 'Current of a Word' (view at sribd.com)
The Reader 32 'Happy 400th Birthday Mr Milton'
The Reader 31 'Relative Time (view at scribd.com)
The Reader 30 'I Live and Write' (view at scribd.com)
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Other downloads:
Fiction:
All three of Mary Weston's short novel The Junction, as published in The Reader 31, 32 and 33 can be downloaded here in PDF format: The Junction Part One, The Junction Part Two, The Junction Part Three.
Evaluation:
Get Into Reading Manchester Showcase - 21st October 2008
Research publications and Get Into Reading project evaluations can be found here.