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Reader Development

SWRLS supports Reader Development in a number of ways;

Cyprus Well; SW Literature Agency was set up in 2009 and is in discussions with SWRLS as to how they can develop partnership working. Alex Cluness, who is responsible for setting up this new charity under the firedtion of the Arts council SW, attended the SWRLS AGM in October 2008 and gave a presentation, "Enabling Literature Development".  He also gave a presentation to SWACL on 13th March and an updated presentation "Cyprus Well, Literature for everyone in the South West " at the Regional Council meeting on 19th March.

The new charity will announce details of its new Trustees shortly. In the meantime, for further details go to the new website at http://www.cypruswell.org/ or contact: Cyprus Well on 01392 384315

The Lost World Read 2009

This year's Big read celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin with a mass read of the classic adventure story The Lost World.

Thousands of copies of the full text version of Conan Doyle's The Lost World and a specially commissioned adaptation for younger or less confident readers, along with a graphic style biography of Charles Darwin are being distributed across a range of sites including public libraries and a number of academic libraries.  A free downloadable version of The Lost World is also available, thanks, in part, to support funding from SWRLS from http://www.audioville.co.uk/ just search for Lost World and choose the full unabridged version.

The report on the whole project can be seen here:

http://www.lostworldread.com/downloads/lost_world_read_survey_summary.doc