An award-winning novelist visited a college.

Bali Rai visited Barnet and Southgate College yesterday, to see how The Reading Agency’s Six Book Challenge has supported students.

Mr Rai, whose latest novel Web of Darkness is nominated for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie medal, said: “The ability to read well is the cornerstone of all achievement and the key to the future success of the students here. People who love to read do better in life – it really is that simple."