Bloomsbury Guide for Reading Groups
In the last few years, and especially since the BBC's Big Read, the reading group phenomenon has swept the country. But how do you go about finding a reading group in your area, or if you are involved in setting one up, how should it be run and what books should be selected?
The guide includes chapters on: Setting up and Running a Group; Readers Guides; Synopses to aid a quick choice of book for discussion; Themes, each of which is accompanied by a brief introductory paragraph, followed by a simple list of cross-referenced titles; Resources - an annotated list of useful magazines, books, websites etc. and Suggested Further Reading - a list of additional, highly recommended titles for discussion.
LONDON (ENGLAND)_HISTORYDICKENS, CHARLES, 1812-1870
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERBloomsbury Publishing Plc
LENGTH160
LANGUAGEEN
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Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
Bloomsbury Guide for Reading Groups
by Peter Ackroyd, Susan Osborne
In the last few years, and especially since the BBC's Big Read, the reading group phenomenon has swept the country. But how do you go about finding a reading group in your area, or if you are involved in setting one up, how should it be run and what books should be selected?
The guide includes chapters on: Setting up and Running a Group; Readers Guides; Synopses to aid a quick choice of book for discussion; Themes, each of which is accompanied by a brief introductory paragraph, followed by a simple list of cross-referenced titles; Resources - an annotated list of useful magazines, books, websites etc. and Suggested Further Reading - a list of additional, highly recommended titles for discussion.
LONDON (ENGLAND)_HISTORYDICKENS, CHARLES, 1812-1870
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERBloomsbury Publishing Plc
LENGTH160
LANGUAGEEN
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
