Our book group choice for May 2025 is Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym. The book is a delightful dance around the lives of two very different women in post-war England. Jane Cleveland, a vicar’s widow in her late fifties, potters gently through her days, finding solace in Trollope novels and the comforting routines of village life. She’s a kind […]
Our book group choice for March 2024 is Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Hideo Harada exists in a quiet, unremarkable world. A television writer creeping towards middle age in 1980s Japan, Hideo’s life is steeped in routine and subtle loneliness.
Our book group choice for January 2024 is Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Enter Green Town, Illinois, where shadows whisper secrets and a sinister carnival creeps under a blood-red moon.
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London, UK (20 Dec 2023) — Charles Dickens features twice, joining six other authors in the The Loveliest Book Group Pantheon Class of 2023, announced today in London. British classics David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol join Great Expectations – inducted in the inaugural class earlier in the year – to lift Dickens’ to the most entries (3) in the London-based
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The LBG Year in Review: Ian McEwan’s powerful The Children Act collects top honours in the 2015 LBG survey, besting a clutch of rivals hot on the heels of the narrow winner in a remarkably tight race.
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Penelope Lively, one of the authors who featured in the 2013 selection, has produced a ghoulish short story, published in The Observer.
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The longlist for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced this week which included LBG’s March selection Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
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An online debate is occuring at The Independent examining the value of prizes for literature produced by women, specifically in the context of whether the Women’s Prize for Fiction should be eliminated.
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In celebrating World Book Day, thousands of children around the globe dress up in costumes. In a piece at BBC.co.uk, Dominic Casciani raises a concern that there is too much focus on the commercialised aspects of the day — costumes, plastic figurines, flamboyant parties and the like — and not enough where it should be: on books.
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The Chinese are snapping up copies of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, a title which (reportedly) took eight years to translate. The original print run of 8,000 copies were sold in less than a month, after a Beijing marketing blitz promoted the title on billboards across the city.
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