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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...
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...
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...
Posters and bookmarks for Jodi Taylor’s Out of Time
Out of Time is the nail-bitingly tense, rib-crackingly funny new TIME POLICE mission from the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY’S – out now in paperback! Download and print these double-sided A4 Jodi Taylor posters to put up in your library. Bookmarks are also available upon request – just email carmella.lowkis@headline.co.uk with your address to claim a pack. About the book The Time Police don’t think twice about jumping to the past. But, this time, the past has...
Reading Group questions for The Child at the Window by Gill Thompson
To mark VE Day, download these Reading Group resources for The Child at the Window by Gill Thompson, including discussion questions and a special letter from the author.
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart
Charlotte and Francesca were best friends at university in the mid 1970s. But tensions coursed beneath their natural affection, deepening when Fran got together with Charlotte’s friend Adrian, and the two women drifted apart. When Fran contacts Charlotte out of the blue with an unusual proposal – an invitation to live with her and Adrian in the rambling house they’ve bought in the countryside – Charlotte impulsively persuades her partner, Bill, to accept this tantalising promise of a new kind...
2026 Quick Read Discussion Guide - The Woman Next Door
This guide includes a range of questions that can be used to prompt and facilitate discussion around one of this year’s Quick Reads.
2026 Quick Read Discussion Guide - The Last Bench
This guide includes a range of questions that can be used to prompt and facilitate discussion around one of this year’s Quick Reads.
2026 Quick Read Discussion Guide - The Girl in the Picture
This guide includes a range of questions that can be used to prompt and facilitate discussion around one of this year’s Quick Reads.
2026 Quick Read Discussion Guide - Sweet Charity
This guide includes a range of questions that can be used to prompt and facilitate discussion around one of this year’s Quick Reads.
2026 Quick Read Discussion Guide - Hunger Pains
This guide includes a range of questions that can be used to prompt and facilitate discussion around one of this year’s Quick Reads.
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive…’ Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and has the social media accounts to prove it. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What Natalie’s followers don’t know won’t hurt them. Then, one morning, Natalie...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Love Lane by Patrick Gale
1950s Northern England. Three generations of men, two of women. When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is brutally obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self examination for the family he abandoned, and for whom he has never been more than a distant myth. His daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is riven with doubt and ambushed by a long-buried anger she has never before expressed. Harry’s effect on the...
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,...
Display materials for Family Lies by Karen Rose
Download and print these A4 and A3 posters for Family Lies by Karen Rose, the gripping new thriller in the San Diego Case Files series. Bookmarks are also available upon request – just email carmella.lowkis@headline.co.uk with your address to claim a pack.
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...
