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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...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Dead Lucky by Connor Hutchinson
Jamie Fletcher loves his job as an embalmer at a busy funeral home in working-class Manchester. Taking responsibility for how mourners remember their loved ones is not something he takes lightly, but Jamie has big enough problems in his own life to dwell too much on the gruesome realities he encounters daily. His adoring yet impatient girlfriend, Rebecca, is pushing to save up for a house, but she hasn’t a clue that Jamie has been living with a gambling addiction since his early teens....
It's All Greek to Me by Andrea Christodoulou - Reading Group Notes
Get your summer book club chat started with these handy reading group notes to accompany copies of It’s All Greek to Me by Andrea Christodoulou – a hilarious new romance novel filled with warmth, drama and Greek heritage. You can’t hurry love … unless it holds the key to a family crisis. Ismeena Eliades has hit a life stalemate. She’s bored of her job as an administrative assistant in the stuffy corporate legal world, fed up of her dried-up love life, and tired of drinking away her thirties....
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
That’s the trouble with stories, especially the ones you write for yourself. Sometimes you think they’ve ended, when they’ve barely begun… London, 1749. Following the murder of her husband in a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above water. The Punchbowl and Pineapple, her confectionary shop on Piccadilly, is barely turning a profit, and her suppliers are conspiring to put her out of business. So, when she learns that her husband had a large sum of money in...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of The Rush by Beth Lewis
Gold fever has taken him. I believe he means to kill me… Canada, 1898. The Gold Rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they’re lost, and Dawson City has become a lawless settlement. In its midst, three women are trying to find their place on the edge of civilisation. Journalist Kate, along with her dog Yukon, has travelled hundreds of miles after receiving a letter from her sister warning that her husband means to kill her. Martha’s hotel and...
All Fours by Miranda July - digital pack and book club guide
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift – a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel – and embarks on the journey of a lifetime. To celebrate paperback publication of All Fours by Miranda July, Canongate are sharing a...
Radio 2 Book Club Extract of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth. Find out more about the book Read this exclusive extract now, as chosen by library staff across the UK for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club.
OCEAN by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield - video assets and fact sheet
The landmark new book from David Attenborough and Colin Butfield. A lifetime of discovery. A century in the making. Ocean is the landmark publication by the greatest natural history broadcaster of our times on how to save the ocean – and consequently our planet. It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed. Download the digital resources.
Reading group questions for The Light a Candle Society by Ruth Hogan
Ruth Hogan’s known for her books with heart, and The Light a Candle Society is no exception! Out in June 2025, The Light a Candle Society is a heart-warming and redemptive story of finding light and joy even in times of darkness. Reading group questions have been supplied here to share with your fellow book fans, so if you’re looking for an uplifting tale that’ll make you feel warm and fuzzy about the human race, this is the book for you!
Young Love by Suzanne Ewart - Reading Group Notes
Get your book club chat started with these handy reading group notes to accompany copies of Young Love by Suzanne Ewart – a novel that explores first love, love between friends, families and loving yourself enough to find happiness, even when it’s not what you imagined. Kelsey and Lewis have been best friends for ten years before, finally, he kisses her for the first time … And leaves for a job in New York the next day. Counting down the days until he comes back to Liverpool, Kelsey busies...
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell - Dragon Spotting Activity
Printable activity sheets to create a ‘dragon treasure hunt’ for children to engage with.
