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The Booker Prize Book Club Challenge - shadow the prize in 2022!

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English-speaking world, and has brought global recognition and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and… read more

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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

Download a reading and response guide for the debut collection from the voice of a generation:
inaugural Young Poet Laureate for London and Beyoncé’s collaborator, Warsan Shire.
With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing… read more

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Win, read and review copies of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Faber is delighted to offer reading groups the opportunity to win one of the BBC’s '100 novels that shaped our world', and the Guardian called ‘a modern classic’. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s only novel, is partially based on Plath’s own life. It has been celebrated for its darkly funny and… read more

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Shadow the 2021 Booker Prize shortlist

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and had brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and… read more

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Claim your book from the Free Books Campaign and Vintage

Free Books Campaign aims to get the best books by authors of colour to those who cannot access them, for free. It helps address the barriers to reading and stories and reaches both adults and children with specific community-curated book lists.

Vintage, part of Penguin Random House, have… read more

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UNWELL WOMEN by Dr Elinor Cleghorn giveaway

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, we are giving away 5x proof copies of UNWELL WOMEN by feminist cultural historian, Dr Elinor Cleghorn.

'As a way of pathologising the relationship between women’s bodies and minds, the idea of hysteria had existed for centuries. The name came from… read more

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Win 10 copies of Radio 2 Book Club choice Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary, a science-based thriller from bestselling author Andy Weir, has been chosen for the Radio 2 Book Club with Steve Wright. Andy will be on the show on Wednesday 5 May.

We have the chance for you to win a set of 10 copies of this novel for your reading group.

To… read more

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Win early copies of A History of What Comes Next for your reading group!

A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Nuevel is speculative fiction as rich as The Man in the High Castle and as packed with thrills as Ready Player One

This is a secret history of our world like no other…
Germany, 1945.

Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher… read more

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Win 10 copies of Radio 2 Book Club choice Concrete Rose

Concrete Rose, the hard-hitting new YA novel from bestselling author Angie Thomas, has been chosen for the Steve Wright Radio 2 Book Club. Angie will be on the show on Thursday 11 February.

We have the chance for you to win a set of 10 copies of this novel for your reading group.

To… read more

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Win a copy of The Illustrated Child by Polly Crosby and a set of watercolours

<b>This offer is for libraries only</b>.

HQ is offering libraries the chance to win a copy Polly Crosby's 'extraordinary debut' (Edward Carey), <i>The Illustrated Child</i>, plus a set of watercolour paints.

To take part, HQ would love libraries to download, print and paint/colour in the… read more

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The Key to Fear by Kristin Cast

Head of Zeus are delighted to be offering 5 hardback copies of <i><b>The Key to Fear</b></i> by Kristin Cast to 5 reading groups.

For fans of <i>Vox</i>, <i>The Power</i> and <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> comes a dystopian novel set in a world where touching is forbidden, books are banned and… read more

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