Penguin Orange Readers Group Prize

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.

2009-05-20