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Radio 2 Book Club Extract 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 Last Death Poet Discussion Notes
This guide is designed for classroom, library, or book group use with readers aged 14+. Each section focuses on a key theme and can be used during reading or at natural pauses in the novel. Reading Questions support close discussion and understanding, while the Big Question at the end of each section invites deeper reflection or written response. Additional creative activities are included at the end of the guide. Content Note: The book covers sensitive issues including homophobia, suicide,...
Daughter of the Titanic - Reading Group Questions
Download a comprehensive set of Reading Group Questions for Caroline Cauchi’s new book, Daughter of the Titanic. nspired by a true story, this is a moving reimagining of loss, legacy and the fragile truth between memory and myth… She was never meant to be a symbol, but the world made her one In 1912, fourteen-year-old Helen ‘Melville’ Smith loses her father, Captain Edward J. Smith of the Titanic. In the decades that follow, she becomes the reluctant keeper of a story the world insists on...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum
Benny and Joy like to say that they’ve been saving each other’s lives since the moment they met . . . Until the day Joy disappears and Benny is accused of her murder. Best friends Benny and Joy host a beloved ‘comedy survival’ podcast, gleefully finding life-affirming humour in near-death experiences. When Benny arrives at Joy and her husband’s home one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. With Joy missing and the hours ticking by, not even their most devoted fans...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Minbak by Ela Lee
The night the baby without a surname was born, the army rolled into his mother’s town. Incheon, South Korea, 1985. The country is revolting against a dictatorship, but in the local boarding-house, the chaos inside is only just beginning. When Hana is pulled from school to work in her family’s minbak, all she wants is to escape her small town. When she finally does, she leaves as an exile, a ruin, or a martyr, depending on who you ask. Her mother Youngia is left behind with the torment of both...
The Violin Maker's Secret - Reading Group Guide
A reading group guide for Evie Woods’ The Violin Maker’s Secret. On any given day, there are thousands of items slowly gathering dust in the Lost and Found of Heathrow Airport. Unknown to anyone, hidden among the clutter, is a very special object that can change the fortunes of those who possess it – a violin of rare beauty and power. Now, as if by chance, it has fallen into the hands of three strangers… Baggage claim agent Devlin, retired teacher Walter, and appraiser Gabrielle have nothing...
The League of Lonely War Women - Reading Group Guide
A reading group guide for Andie Newton’s WW2 novel, The League of Lonely War Women. ‘This fast paced tale of female bravery and contribution to the war effort through exploiting the loneliness of German soldiers for intelligence is a riveting read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An engrossing read that you do not want to miss’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Great portrayal of female friendship and a page-turning plot’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Saoirse
Can a great love survive a great deception? In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an outwardly idyllic life. Her tender husband Daithí and two beloved daughters are regular subjects for her work, and in them she has found the safe home that she has always longed for. She tends not to talk about her past, and those that love her have learned to accept that the full story is too painful for her to disclose. When her Dublin exhibition unexpectedly wins a...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Keeper of Lost Children
In the smouldering ruins of post-war Germany, Ethel Gathers – an American woman longing for a child – spots a group of mixed-race children following a nun through the cobbled streets. Compelled by a force she can’t explain, Ethel follows them and uncovers a hidden community of abandoned children, born to Black soldiers and German women. Determined to help, Ethel’s actions set off a chain of events that will echo across generations. In 1948, Ozzie Philips volunteers for the U.S. Army. But in...
A Girl's Guide to Spying - Resource Pack
This resource pack offers a selection of discussion prompts, activities and creative tasks designed to support the teaching of A Girl’s Guide to Spying in the classroom, school library or book group setting. It is suitable for UKS2 and KS3 and supports cross-curricular links with English, History, Art and PSHE. Read this book for the following themes: Girl Guides and Empowerment – learning skills, confidence and independence Courage and Bravery – facing danger and responsibility during...
Reading Group Questions for Life Hacks for a Little Alien
Get the discussion started with these reading group notes. ‘Wise and playful and tender and beautiful’ Bobby Palmer ‘So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading’ Rebecca Wait Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Remarkably Bright Creatures, this is a charming, witty and moving novel about what it feels like to grow up neurodivergent. ‘Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of This Book Made Me Think of You
Twelve stories. Twelve months. Once chance to heal her heart… When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock. Partly, because she can’t remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. Mainly, because Joe died five months ago… The gift is simple – twelve carefully chosen books from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him. And so,...
Reading Group Questions for Room 706
Get the discussion started with these reading group notes. Nobody knows she’s checked into Room 706. Caught in the wrong place at precisely the worst time, Kate must face the most confronting situation of her life – and discover what matters most – in this deeply suspenseful and thought-provoking novel. If she knew it would end this way, would it ever have begun? Kate stretches her legs and turns on the TV while James washes away the traces of their morning. She watches in horror at the...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
Young rice farmer Yin Wei was forced to become concubine to Prince Guan Terren – a monstrous wielder of poetry magic, and heir to the Azalea throne – to save her family from the famine blighting the land of Tensha. Now confined to the imperial court, Terren’s cruelty is not the only danger Wei faces. He and his honourable older brother are locked in a deadly succession war, while Terren’s thirty concubines are fighting a war of their own, for the position of future empress. To survive, Wei...
The Moonlit Maze by Zoë Marriott | Reading Group Notes
Will your book club uncover the secrets hidden in the Moonlit Maze? Get the discussion started with these reading group notes. The past can hold you in its spell… A windswept moor. A house in ruins. A secret to unlock… 1924. Lord and Lady Kearsley’s glittering Summer Ball is in full swing when their betrothed daughter Xanthe slips out of the Orangery and into the maze for a secret encounter. By the next morning, the grand house will be in ashes and two bodies removed, but no one will ever...
When We Were Divided by Liz Flanagan - Reading Group Notes
Get your Spring book club chat started with these handy reading group notes to accompany When We Were Divided by Liz Flanagan – an historical novel set during the English Civil War about family and political conflict, and pure but forbidden love, will stay with readers long after they’ve turned the last page. Divided by plague, divided by war, divided by love – what will reunite two sisters? Yorkshire, 1643. Civil war divides the country. Jane mourns the departure of her last boy who goes off...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Merge by Grace Walker
What if two consciousnesses could be joined together into one person – two people in one head and body? If so, who would you choose to ‘merge’ with? Once the process begins, there can be no going back, we will always be together… Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s. Her daughter Amelia can’t bear to see her mother’s mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world’s first experimental merging process for Alzheimer’s patients,...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Shapeshifter's Daughter by Sally Magnusson
Nothing, on earth or below it, freezes faster than the worthless heart. Before she was a hideous monster, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard, realm of the gods, by Odin the Allfather, Hel’s fate as the terrible goddess of death is sealed. Half beauty, half crone, she has reigned for aeons in the starless darkness of Niflheim, grimly welcoming the most pitiful of death’s travellers to her ice-locked prison. Until one day a memory shifts, and she...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings. But his idyll – and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot – is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library. Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help: the wealthy, irrepressible Colin Wren; brave, beautiful Alison Shiner; the battling twins Donna and...
Best of the Backlist Publisher Picks
Ever feel like you’ve missed a book that everyone else seems to have read? Have you had a book on your TBR list for a while and need reminding as to why you picked it in the first place? Some of our publisher partners have picked books from their backlist to share great reads for book clubs to enjoy that you may have missed. This booklist ranges from imaginative adventures and heartwarming tales for younger children to bold, inspiring reads for older children. For young people, there are...
Dyslexia-friendly Publisher Picks
To help book clubs, librarians and teachers engage with the Book Club Hub throughout the year, our publisher partners are picking some of their latest titles for a brand new booklist themes. They have selected a book, given a three word description and shared any content warnings. To help support activity for Dyslexia Awareness Week (#DAW25) on 6-10 October, publishers have recommended books they outline as being dyslexia-friendly (designed with a host of unique accessibility features to help...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna
In a village in rural Pakistan, Tara is waiting and watching. The smell of dung and dust hangs over her world. She is desperate to leave the petty life of the village and escape the iron grip of her violent, unpredictable brother. Marrying a middle-class accountant allows her to escape to the capital, but she soon finds that life as a respectable housewife is not sufficient either. She wants what the rich mothers at her children’s school have. She wants what their husbands have. Her desire...
The Academy Book Club Kit
Bespoke Book Club Kit for The Academy by Elin Hilderband, featuring a reading list, food recipes, and cocktail recipes inspired by the book, to create the perfect book club meeting!
Laurie Gilmore - The Gingerbread Bakery digital assets
Downloadable assets include: - Poster for The Gingerbread Bakery - Reading group questions for all 5 books in Laurie Gilmore’s Dream Harbor series - Colouring pages from The Pumpkin Spice Café Coloring Book
Laurie Gilmore Dream Harbor book club resources
A pack of questions to help facilitate your book group discussions. There are book group questions for: The Pumpkin Spice Café The Cinnamon Bun Bookshop The Christmas Tree Farm The Strawberry Patch Pancake House The Gingerbread Bakery
Seven Deadly Thorns Book Club Notes
Download these free book club notes for Seven Deadly Thorns – perfect for guiding a conversation around this dark academia, enemies-to-lovers romantasy by Amber Hamilton. These book club notes can be used as part of school discussion classes or in book clubs. In the cursed Kingdom of Aragoa, the punishment for magic is death. Even the students at Vandenberghe Academy aren’t spared. When Viola Sinclair’s deadly shadow magic is discovered, the queen gives her assassin a new assignment and a new...
Emily Brown and the Not-Very-Spooky Halloween Event Kit
Halloween is an exciting time of year, but it can also be a scary one for very young children. In the latest picture book, Emily and Stanley meet a sweet little ghostie who seems more frightened than frightening. The ghostie thinks he needs to find his ‘spook’, but with the help of his new friends soon learns that there are other ways to have fun at Halloween! In this kit, you’ll find a range of resources for running a Not-Very-Spooky Halloween event, including activity sheets, a craft...
This Wasn't Meant to Happen - Book Club Questions
Questions to facilitate discussion of Ali Harris’s heartbreaking story about love and grief, This Wasn’t Meant to Happen.
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Two Roberts by Damian Barr
He will stay like this forever, Robert’s arm draped round him. They will be forever twenty. Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he’s off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with loose dark curls – and never leave his side. Together they will spend every penny and every minute devouring Glasgow – its botanical gardens, the Barras market, a whole hidden city – all the while...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and – inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will...
