Reading groups are everywhere these days - hotbeds of debate are springing up in pubs, libraries and sitting rooms, as well as online, in newspapers, and on radio and television. A reading group is a great place to discover new books and revisit old ones - a place to share views, try something different, and generate hugely influential word-of-mouth buzz.
The Faber Book Club is an online resource for reading groups. In our guides you'll find background information, suggested further reading and discussion points, for an ever-growing list of books from the likes of Barbara Kingsolver, Kazuo Ishiguro, Orhan Pamuk and John McGahern.
Single-motherhood, relationships and needlework are some of the themes that run throughout Things to Make and Mend, the debut novel from Ruth Thomas and a recent recipient of a Good Housekeeping Book Award. Our new guide includes a Q & A with the author, and background to the story.
Hanif Kureishi's has a new book in 2008 - Something to Tell You (read an extract here) - but he is of course best-known for The Buddha of Suburbia, a genuine modern classic and a recent choice for the Guardian's Book Club. Four weekly instalments that can be read alongside our very own Faber reading guide.
Welcome to Arlington Park, just an ordinary English suburb, where five women live ordinary lives . . . Rachel Cusk's latest novel has been praised by the critics, and is now shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Broadband Prize. Our new reading guide includes an interview with the author, plus plenty of suggestions for debate.
Joining Arlington Park on the shortlist for this year's Orange Broadband Prize is The Observations, Jane Harris's debut novel - a story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories and mysterious disappearances, set in the 1860s. We're confident that this will become a real reading group favourite - download our guide to find out why.
