The North London Reading Group is a reading group based around the Piccadilly line in North London.
We are a group of about ten like-minded souls who get together each month to discuss something a little meatier than the London freesheets.
There are currently about ten of us. We are a relatively new group - we've been meeting monthly since June 2007.
On this website, you can:
- find out a little more about us and get in touch
- see what books we've read so far
- have a peek at what we've been up to.
Apparently, tube drivers are to start quoting Ghandi and Einstein during our daily commutes along the Piccadilly line.
If you are turned on by this tube-philosophy 'mash-up' you might want to check out Christopher Cross' Tunnel Visions, which we discussed a while back.
We've had a flurry of people asking to join since our little mentions in the London Evening Standard, London Lite, Londonpaper and Enfield Independent. (see below — sadly, we didn't win!).
Thanks to everybody who has got in touch. We'll be organising a get together over the next few weeks to set up another group or two. Stay tuned!
Crikey! We are honoured to have made the shortlist of the Penguin Orange Readers Group Prize.
This evening we had a fun impromptu photoshoot at our birthplace, Smithy's Wine Bar in Kings Cross, for tomorrow's London Evening Standard. We hope it doesn't put too many commuters off their tea.
The prize was set up eight years ago to celebrate 'making reading social'. The winner will be chosen by Labyrinth author Kate Mosse and announced on the 27 May.
Our group was set up with a solitary web page that tentatively asked whether anybody was interested in setting up a reading group?" in June 07. People were, and two years later we're still going and have given birth to four similar groups and a network of some 100 like minded people.
Anyway, it's been very special and we hope the Readers Group Prize inspires other people to get involved.
