Tag Archives: Reading Group

Is Good Omens one of the best collaborative novels ever written?
January 29, 2019

Is it hyperbole to call Good Omens one of the most successful collaborative novels of [...]

Good Omens is so enjoyable it seems bad form to spot the flaws
January 22, 2019

There’s probably never a bad time to read Good Omens, but it’s hard to imagine [...]

Endless Night: Agatha Christie’s favourite still has shock factor
November 13, 2018

Agatha Christie may have been 76 when she wrote Endless Night, and omore than 50 [...]

Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone is our reading group choice for August
July 24, 2018

We briefly interrupt our ongoing coverage of Moon Tiger to announce the subject of next [...]

Moon Tiger: ferociously complicated – and fantastically readable
July 10, 2018

In a 2001 interview on BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub, Penelope Lively explained that the curious [...]

Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger is our reading group choice for July
July 3, 2018

Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger has won the vote for your favourite Booker winner and will [...]

Reading group: Help choose a Booker prize winner to read in July
June 26, 2018

This July is a bumper Man Booker month. As well as the announcement of the [...]

Reading group: Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier is June’s book
May 29, 2018

This June marks 100 years since Rebecca West’s first novel The Return of the Soldier [...]

Reading group: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes is our book for May
May 8, 2018

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes has come out of the hat and will be this month’s [...]