Yann Martel, the best-selling author of The Life of Pi, once opined: ‘Books are something social – a writer speaking to a reader – so I think making the reading of a book the centre of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.’
It seems like garnering members from your community is the way many book groups operate. Michelle Prosser-Roberts lives in Malvern East and says that the group she belongs to also consists of those who live locally. Meeting in a restaurant monthly the team take it in turns to decide what to read. ‘As a bunch of avid readers it’s mostly new books as, when we offer older books, invariably someone has already read it. Mostly women’s fiction, some history, some fantasy books. But mostly mainstream books that have an angle or something we can discuss,’ she explains.
