Promoting the benefits of reading for health and wellbeing

News - 12 July 2018

Reading Well helps you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing using self-help reading. The scheme is endorsed by health professionals and supported by public libraries.
Graphic of a man sitting reading a book and a woman stood next to him

Reading Well is a collection self-help books to help you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing.

There are currently four collections of books:

  • Reading Well for mental health
  • Reading Well for long-term conditions
  • Reading Well – young people’s mental health
  • Reading Well – books on prescription for dementia

Books are freely available from all North Somerset libraries. They can be reserved for free if the book you want is not on the shelf and they can all be checked out confidentially through self-service machines for a longer loan period of six weeks.

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