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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...
How to Cheat Your Own Death
5 free copies of How to Cheat Your Own Death are available for book groups. The latest instalment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series, in which Annie Adams and her Great Aunt Frances team up across decades to solve two interlocking murders. Kristen Perrin is originally from Seattle, Washington, where she spent several years working as a bookseller before immigrating to the UK to do a Masters and PhD. She’s passionate about books and loves...
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...
The Ocean and the Bones - Discussion Guide and Activities
This resource pack provides discussion prompts, activities and creative tasks designed to support reading The Ocean and the Bones in the classroom, school library or book group. It is suitable for UKS2 and KS3 and supports cross-curricular links with English, History, Science, Art and PSHE. Read this book for the following themes: - Stone Age Life – survival, shelter, tools and daily life - Nature and Survival – the power of the ocean and the struggle to stay alive - Friendship and Trust –...
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...
Elmer Day 2026 - activity pack
To help you celebrate Elmer Day during the National Year of Reading, Andersen Press have a digital activity pack for you to join in. The downloadable activity Pack include26 pages of crafts, activities and reading guides and social media assets. Everyone is invited to Go All In and join the fun this Elmer Day, and while the official date for this year’s Elmer Day is Saturday 23rd May. Andersen Press invite you to celebrate at a time that works best for you, whether that’s sharing Elmer...
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.
2026 Quick Read Discussion Guide - Cell One
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...
Boy Friends book club notes
These discussion questions, written by Kai Spellmeier, are perfect to kick off book club and class discussions around Boy Friends. Boy Friends is a heart-flipping, swoon-worthy story about friendship, courage and the kind of love that changes everything. Perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Sophie Gonzales.
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...
Sentinel of the Sun by Eira Morgan-Jones - Chapter 1 & 2 Reading
Seventeen-year-old Alexis struggles to fit in to the extremely religious valley where she lives, not helped by strange birthmarks that have begun to glow. When a tidal wave devastates the valley, just the latest freak disaster, Alexis goes into hiding to avoid being taken in by the state. As she becomes closer to Theo, he reveals that he is a sentinel and believes she is one too. He explains that if she regains her power they can bring an end to the disasters. Hear author Eira Morgan-Jones...
The Sad Book by Howard Pearlstein, illustrated by James Munro book reading
Everyone feels sad sometimes — even this book. The Sad Book by Howard Pearlstein and James Munro helps young readers explore sadness with warmth, humour, and sensitivity. Told from the perspective of the book itself, this interactive story gently encourages reflection, emotional awareness, and resilience, with thoughtful text and expressive illustrations throughout. Hear author Howard Pearlstein read the first section of the book.
Read to the Beat Collection - Book Information
The Reading Agency and public libraries are working to change this with the Summer Reading Challenge – a FREE, UK-wide programme. Last year, over 575,000 children took part with nearly 12 million books being read. Sing from the rooftops! We’re so thrilled that the theme for the Summer Reading Challenge 2026 will be music. Our exciting partnership with Universal Music Group UK will open doors for children to explore the creative power of reading and music. The link between music 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...
Usborne Adventure Gamebook Lightning Rider: Activity Sheet
Try one of the activities from the latest Usborne Adventure Gamebooks, Lightning Rider. Read the description carefully, identify all clues and uncover the secrets of the Lightning Riders!
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’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
