Resources
The Book Club Hub is here to support leaders and members of book clubs by sharing digital resources for the latest releases. Filter the resources for adults, children’s or young people’s books.
We’ve been made aware of fraudulent emails and phone calls from individuals falsely claiming to represent Book Club Hub, particularly targeting authors.
Please note:
• We will never request payment to run campaigns via unsolicited messages
• We will only contact you from our official email addresses (no gmail accounts)
If you receive anything suspicious, please do not engage and report it to us directly via our official channels.
Thank you for helping to keep our community safe
Best Books for Book Clubs Publisher Picks
11 September is Book Club Day UK! We have asked our publisher partners and team at The Reading Agency to share their book club picks based around the theme. These picks should spark conversation, so get your book club together or even start one, pick one of these books and enjoy together. From magical adventures, friendship and resilience to gripping mysteries, romance, history and thought provoking explorations of identity and community, there’s something for every reader. Discover a new...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Agrippa by Robert Harris
‘Time was conquered, and gradually my old friend ceased to be a man, or even a monarch, and became instead an epoch’. Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir. The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and, against all odds, they win. Octavius becomes the Emperor Augustus. For...
Impossible Creatures: The Poisoned King - teaching resources and book club discussion notes
When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he’s dreamed of returning to the Archipelago – the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon’s lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice…
Impossible Creatures - teaching resources and book club discussion notes
Christopher is stunned when he discovers a Way-Between from our world to the Archipelago: a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures of myth still live and breed and thrive in their thousands. There he meets Mal: a girl from the islands, who is in possession of a flying coat and a baby griffin, and who is being pursued by a killer. Together they embark on an urgent quest to discover why the creatures are suddenly perishing, voyaging across the wild splendour of the Archipelago,...
And Then We Screamed by Holly Bourne - book club questions
Book Club questions for And Then We Screamed by Holly Bourne. The mind-blowing new novel full of mystery, conspiracy and dark secrets from bestselling Holly Bourne, for fans of Kathleen Glasgow and e. lockhart “A voice of our generation.” Samantha Shannon “Holly Bourne is something special. She’s got it.” Patrick Ness Everything was perfect in the small town of Maple Lakes…until the cheerleaders started screaming. Clover wishes something would happen in her boring high school – so she can...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Ghost Month by Simon Wroe
Perhaps you’ve already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be a trick of the light. They come at dusk. Today. Every September, the spirits of the dead return before vanishing four weeks later in a puff of green ash. They’re not real in any way that can hurt you, but their presence unearths an annual reckoning with the past. It’s hard to tell the silent spectres from ashen commuters. They linger on train platforms, they...
Book Club Day UK 2026 - Workplace Communications Toolkit
Book Club Day UK (11 September 2026) will be a day celebrating the joy, connection and impact of shared reading, while supporting more people to start or join book clubs in their communities. This year, we’re inviting workplaces across the UK to join the reading rebellion. Take 15 minutes out of the working day to swap recommendations. Start a bookish debate over lunch. Fill your workplace with the books your colleagues love. Hold a book swap. Or use the day to finally start that workplace...
Man Enough: A Parent's Guide
FOR ADULTS To tie in with the publication of Man Enough: How to Protect Boys from Online Misogyny by Matteo Bergamini and Amelia Fairney, we’re offering a free Parent’s Guide to the Manosphere. With 69% of 11–14-year-old boys in the UK exposed to misogynistic content online, Man Enough explores how to talk to boys about toxic masculinity in an online world. To accompany the book, this free resource provides parents with: • Five Steps to Caring Communication: Learn how to “call in” rather than...
Book Club Day UK 2026 - Communications Toolkit
Book Club Day UK (11 September 2026) will be a day celebrating the joy, connection and impact of shared reading, while supporting more people to start or join book clubs in their communities. For 2026, we are inviting people to be a reading rebel and join a book club, make their book clubs more visible or invite someone new to join their club in September. The messages are get your books out, find your people and build stronger communities. The day is a chance to bring people together to...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Scandalous Ladies Football Club by Frances Quinn
Welcome to the British Ladies Football Club… London, 1897. Minnie Newton – twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher and women’s rights advocate – has a passion for football. But in Victorian society, football is a men’s game. That is, until Minnie decides to take matters into her own hands and place an ad in the newspaper, asking for volunteers to join the first ever women’s football team. From a motley collection of replies, Minnie puts together a squad. Most of the women have never kicked a ball...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd
If the past catches up with you, time travel can be murder… London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality (although it’s technologically difficult, prohibitively expensive and extremely heavily regulated). Tempus Tours – owned by controversial tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank – is the first operation to offer those who can afford it the chance to experience first-hand moments of compelling historical interest. The public fascination with genius Inigo is at its peak, and he is...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Leveret by Anna Goldreich
Moving to the countryside is supposed to fix Clare and Phoebe’s relationship. A fresh start, a change of scenery, a chance to heal after the miscarriage of their baby girl. Instead, Phoebe feels suffocated. Back in the rural community she ran from at seventeen and unable to face the partner she cannot help, she throws herself into work on the family farm. Clare is a stranger in the village, uninitiated and out of place. She spends her days drifting around the cottage, its walls groaning and...
Radio 2 Book Club Reading Guide of Under Water by Tara Menon
When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman Sea. There, she forms a deep friendship with Arielle and together they explore the fragile wonders of its forests, reefs and beaches. Holding their breath for minutes at a time, they learn to dive into the deep, as effortlessly synchronized as the manta rays they come to know by name. Then, on Boxing Day 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami makes landfall, they are swept up and...
The Heirs by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Book Club Questions
Book Club questions for The Heirs by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Waterstones YA Book of the Month for July. The Heirs is the utterly addictive new YA murder mystery thriller from the award-winning and bestselling author of Ace of Spades and Where Sleeping Girls Lie. Perfect for fans of The Inheritance Games, Holly Jackson and Karen McManus. FIVE PRODIGIES Everyone has heard of the Button heirs: the five genius children of infamous billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and trained under the “Button...
Puzzle Slug and the Cosmic Stench of Doom Activity Sheet
Activity sheet for KS1 for Puzzle Slug and the Cosmic Stench of Doom. Includes activities like, - Wordsearch - Picture puzzles - Colour in pictures Puzzle Slug and the Cosmic Stench of Doom by Candice Whatmore is perfect for readers aged 6+. Fans of Bunny Vs Monkey and Dog Man will love this laugh-out-loud comic book with fun puzzles to solve and hilarious characters.
Not Like the Other Parents by Asia Mackay – bookmarks, book club extract and author video
Don’t miss the brand new, darkly funny and relatable novel about everyone’s favourite serial killers – from the author of A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage. Not Like the Other Parents bookmarks are available upon request for your reading group or library display. Just email carmella.lowkis@headline.co.uk with your address and the quantity that you require. In the meantime, you can read an extract from the book and watch a video of author Asia Mackay introducing serial killer power-couple,...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean
Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place. But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost...
The Inspector McLean series by James Oswald – posters and bookmarks
The Violent Hour is the fifteenth high-stakes thriller in the Sunday Times bestselling Inspector McLean series by James Oswald. Inspector McLean series bookmarks and A4 display posters are available upon request – just email carmella.lowkis@headline.co.uk with your address and what quantity you require of each. Or download the A4 poster now to print for yourself. About the book Festival season. The streets are filled to bursting with tourists, and Edinburgh is gripped by a stifling heatwave....
Reading Group Questions for The Queen's Painter
To mark the publication of The Queen’s Painter, the dazzling new historical novel by Sunday Times bestseller Wendy Holden, the author has created a set of book club questions! The Queen’s Painter is a thrilling new take on Anne Boleyn’s stellar rise and tragic fall as told by Tudor court artist Hans Holbein. Close friend of the ill-fated queen, did he use his genius in a stunning act of revenge?
Solving Crimes and Thrilling Reads Publisher Picks
June is National Crime Reading Month! We have asked our publisher partners and team at The Reading Agency to share their book club picks based around the theme ‘Solving crimes & thrilling reads .’ So, pick up a book, tablet or your headphones and follow the clues, uncover secrets and lose yourself in stories packed with mystery, suspense and unexpected twists. Whether you’re a budding detective, a fan of thrilling adventures or a seasoned crime -fiction reader, this booklist offers...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes
London, 1836. Nineteen-year-old Kate Hogarth falls in love with the young journalist Charles Dickens. In the early days of their marriage, Charles is infatuated with his new bride and Kate delights in her new life, the balm to her husband’s irrepressible spirit. But as he finds fame as a novelist and the family rise through the ranks of Victorian society, Kate becomes increasingly aware of his frustration that real people cannot be manipulated as easily as his characters. Meanwhile, in the...
The Summer My Wishes Came True: Activity sheets
Activity sheets for KS2 for The Summer My Wishes Came True by Radhika Sanghani. Includes the following activities: - Create a summer camp brochure - What if your wishes came true? List writing - Write a story with prompts - Read a Q&A with the author The Summer My Wishes Came True by Radhika Sanghani is perfect for readers aged 9+. Fans of Lottie Brooks and Dork Diaries will love this book about friendships, with a sprinkling of magic!
Read to the Beat Collection - Chatterbooks pack for book club sessions
Sing from the rooftops! We’re so thrilled that the theme for the Summer Reading Challenge 2026 will be music. To help teachers, librarians and book club leaders to help children engage with the Collection, we have created a Chatterbooks pack filled with discussion questions and suggested activities to help you host book club sessions throughout the summer! More about the Read to the Beat Collection Our exciting partnership with Universal Music Group UK will open doors for children to explore...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of John of John by Douglas Stuart
Everything he owned fit into a backpack and one doubled bin bag. It had taken him less than ten minutes to pack up four years of his life. It had taken a little longer to fold himself away, to hide all the bits of himself that had slowly been unfurling since he had arrived on the mainland. In truth, he had not changed that much since he had been at college, and as he roamed the ferry he wondered if he had always known he would be forced to come home eventually. Out of money and with little to...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Dissection Of A Murder by Jo Murray
When Leila Reynolds is handed her first murder case, she’s shocked at how high-profile it is: the murder of a well-respected, well-known judge. This shouldn’t be the kind of case she’s leading; it’s way beyond her expertise. But the defendant, Jack Millman, is clear. He wants her, and only her. To make things worse, he’s refusing to talk. How is she supposed to prove herself on what appears to be an unwinnable case? Losing is not an option. She must find the most persuasive argument. Trials...
Two is a Crowd - Teaching Resources
A stunning contemporary real-life story from the brilliant author of Ella on the Outside, Cath Howe, with beautiful illustrations by Miguel Bustos. About the resource pack: In this resource pack, you will find activity ideas for KS2 students, including: - Whole class writing and drawing activity to create your own class display of hot air balloons! - Exploring emotions through Literacy and PSHE activities, such as creating a ‘Feelings Bank’ - Creative writing activities to encourage students...
Max and Ella – Discussion Guide
New from the author of The Doughnut Club Max and Ella, Stuck Together is a warm, heart-filled story, for every reader who needs help being true to themselves. ‘This lovely story sensitively explores what it means to be part of a donor- conceived family, but at its heart is a message about hanging onto your true self when your confidence takes a hit’ Janeen Hayat, author of WCBP winning Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree
Your Murder Next by Ravena Guron - Book Club questions
Book club question sheet for Ravena Guron’s brand new YA thriller Your Murder Next. Out now! Myra must infiltrate the popular clique’s world of envy and backstabbing to worth out is to blame for the murder of Queen Bee Scarlett… From the author of bestselling This Book Kills, this is perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen M. McManus.
Celebrations at the Toffee Factory by Glenda Young – posters, bookmarks and reading group packs
The dramatic conclusion to Glenda Young’s heartwarming Toffee Factory trilogy is here: Celebrations at the Toffee Factory is out in paperback 21st May. Download these reading group packs including discussion questions, a letter from the author, and a tasty toffee recipe to try at home. Bookmarks and A3 display posters are also available upon request – just email carmella.lowkis@headline.co.uk with your address and what quantity you require of each. About the book Discover the gripping...
Birdlands by Anthony McGowan - Discussion Guide and Activities
This resource pack provides discussion prompts, activities and creative tasks designed to support reading Birdlands in the classroom, school library or book group. It is suitable for UKS2 and KS3 and supports cross-curricular links with English, Science, Art and PSHE. Read this book for the following themes: • Nature and the natural world – how animals survive in different environments • Humans vs nature – how human activity affects wildlife • Predators and survival – the dangers animals face...
