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FREE Short Stories for Commuters
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9th Aug 2024
If you’re a London-based commuter, or you’re visiting this summer on a trip, make sure to stop by Canary Wharf to get hold of some free short stories to entertain you on your commute.
After its previous success, international giant publisher Penguin Books has created “short story stations” where you can print off one, three, and five-minute long reads. They might be fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, and each month has a different theme. This month, it’s celebrating South Asian Heritage month with contributions from Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie, Women’s Prize-winner V V Ganeshananthan and Empireworld author Sathnam Sanghera and more.
To get your free reads, visit any station in Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Palace Roof Garden or Jubilee Place. Find the reading station, press a button, and print out a story for your commute!
Current stories include:
1. Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera
In his groundbreaking new book, Sanghera traces the legacies of the British Empire around the world.
2. Say You’ll Be My Jaan by Naina Kumar
Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting conversations with strangers. Everything except arranged marriage…
3. The Feel Good Fix by Lavina Mehta
Specifically designed to improve your health in perimenopause, menopause and beyond, this book offers quick, fun and effective bitesize exercise, as well as mind and lifestyle ’snacks’ to make you feel good, both physically and mentally.
4. Knife by Salman Rushdie
A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.
5. The Girlfriend Act by Safa Ahmed
A delightfully swoony tale with endearing characters finding the courage to be true to themselves and their dreams.
6. Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan
An exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives.
7. Race and Education by Kalwant Bhopal
Professor Kalwant Bhopal shows how race still determines who gains the best education in Britain, and who falls by the wayside. Through case studies, original research and interviews with students, teachers and academics alike, she reveals how the construction of privilege starts at a young age.
Shane the reading for the train journeys are just for Canary Wharf!!! I would love access to story reading qhilst teavelling in the Wirral!
This looks good! Wonder why other railway stations don’t take this up? I’ve sat on some miserable windswept stations in my time only to discover that I forgot to recharge my kindle.
Thank you for the information.
Thankyou