Bridge Books is a small bookshop in Dromore, which has been serving its loyal local customers for more than 25 years. It is run by NHS staff who work at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and aims to provide an inclusive space where members read, discuss and listen to books, as well as poetry, podcasts and comedy.īridge Books book club in County Down will read Alan Garner’s Treacle Walker (Fourth Estate). This group was born out of lockdown, set up by three founding members who bonded over books and feminism on Twitter. The Royal Devon Culture Club will be reading Percival Everett’s The Trees (Influx Press).
In that time, their 18 readers have read 172 books by 165 authors and have eaten 113 cakes, which they try to match to the books they are reading, often by location or theme. They started up in the book group boom of the early 2000s. Weegie BeeGee club in Glasgow have been given NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory (Chatto & Windus). Two members of the club that shares the most original and engaging reviews will then be invited to attend this year’s Booker Prize winner ceremony on 17th October at the Roundhouse. Over the next month the clubs will be reading, discussing and reviewing their book, sharing their views online on social media, as well as with The Reading Agency’s community of readers and the Booker Prize website. More than 100 groups applied, and representatives from the final six were invited to attend yesterday’s shortlist party at the Serpentine Gallery in London, where they met the judges and were paired with one of the shortlisted books.
The prize partnered with the charity The Reading Agency earlier this year to select the six lucky groups, who come from Devon to County Down, and hail from all walks of life from steel workers to bakers.
The Booker Prize has revealed the six reading groups who will be reading and discussing books from this year’s shortlist, competing for places at the winners’ ceremony in October.
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