London's liveliest book club

The North London Reading Group is an independent network of book groups in and around North London.

We began in June 2007 as a single group of ten like minded souls, which met monthly to discuss something meatier than the then ubiquitous freesheets.

Many of those freesheets have now gone. But we've since bloomed into a network of 20 groups and get together at fab literary gatherings such as Bookstock. More...

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10 Australian novels you must read

If your bookshelf is like mine, it isn’t heaving with Australian fiction. So let’s put that right with the help of this list of 10 Aussie novels that demand a place on it.

By Paul | 29 January 2012 | No comments

The Iron Lady’s façade slips

The hype surrounding Meryl Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher made it an obvious choice for the Politics, Polemics and Pints Reading Group’s first cinema trip.

By Dawn | 20 January 2012 | No comments

The mystery of Waterstones’ missing apostrophe

Waterstone’s – the last major bookshop chain on our high streets – should really know better than to drop the apostrophe from its name. But is it just a ‘Pasta Hut’ style PR rouse?

By Dawn | 14 January 2012 | so far

Interview with epic adventurer T.D. Griggs

Writer T.D. Griggs talks about the British Empire, pen names, emigrating to Australia – and his forthcoming appearance at our Aussie Christmas Party literary event on Sat 28 Jan.

By Paul | 10 January 2012 | No comments

Too great expectations?

Why the Beeb’s cheeky Dickens pastiche ‘The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff’ rather than its lavish adaptation of one of the great man’s most famous works will have inspired more readers this Christmas.

By Sarah | 3 January 2012 | 1 comment

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