2026
Juno Dawson – The Death of Reading for Pleasure
and How to Prevent It

Juno Dawson is an award-winning author of young adult fiction that includes Clean and Meat Market, which won the 2020 Young Adult Book Prize.

She is also a screenwriter and podcaster, and has written a bestselling adult fantasy trilogy. 

For the 17th Philippa Pearce Lecture, we were delighted to be joined by Juno Dawson. Juno’s warmth, humour and staunch commitment to readers from every background was rousingly received by an audience whose laughter and shared concern echoed throughout the Homerton auditorium. Tackling the reading for pleasure crisis head-on, she was unflinching in her delivery of the National Literacy Trust’s devastating statistics 

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