HUGE crowds have gathered outside Reading Prison for the chance to see inside one final time.

Following the success of the exhibition 'Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison', which ran through the autumn of 2016, Artangel opened the prison one final time for a special book launch.

From 12pm to 4pm today (May 13), the public were invited in to see the prison looking exactly as it was when it closed its doors in 2013, and purchase a copy of the book at a special launch price.

The voice of Colm Tóibín, reading Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis from the very same cell where Wilde wrote his great work, can be heard in the prison chapel through the day.

Visitors are also able to listen to several of the ‘letters of separation’, specially written for Inside in response to state-imposed confinement including Ai Wei Wei, Anne Carson, Gillian Slovo and Jeanette Winterson.

The book 'Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison' includes installation photos of every work in the exhibition, all nine letters of separation, and extensive excerpts from De Profundis, and an introduction by Artangel Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris.

To buy a copy for £24.95 click here.