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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Kick start a more sociable and cerebral new year by joining the North London Reading Group. Here’s why and how.
World Book Night returns on 23 April to give away almost half a million books to encourage people to read. Our very own Demelza Burrell helped judge which books will be given away on the night…
Fancy a reading group meeting with a difference? Pennsylvania-based writer Damian McNicholl is offering to Skype into your next one from his home in the States.
Bookstock highlight Anna Stothard talks about The Pink Hotel – a novel inspired by her discovery of her mother’s love letters and living in Los Angeles.
Help get through winter by discussing fantastic fiction in welcoming London pubs! Join us on Wed 19 or Mon 24 October when we’ll be setting up new reading groups.