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Debuts of 2018

Are you doing NaNoWriMo? If you need a bit of writing inspiration to get your big debut out, take a look at our favourite debuts of 2018:

Mostyn Thomas and the Big Rave by Richard Williams
Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Vox by Christina Dalcher
Never Greener by Ruth Jones
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
Suicide Club by Rachel Heng
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
House Swap by Rebecca Fleet
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Rosie Loves Jack by Mel Darbon
Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
XX by Angela Chadwick
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power

For more information about each book, click the download link below.

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Radio 2 Book Club - Winter titles

The Winter season of the Radio 2 Book Club is out now, with brilliant brand-new fiction titles to discover. The BBC Radio 2 Book Club is on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. It features a wide range of titles and authors, recommending great reads from both new and much-loved writers, encouraging listeners to perhaps try out a genre they might not have read before, and share their opinions and insights on the titles and great reads they’re enjoying right now.

Resources

How to start a reading group

Interested in joining a reading group or starting one of your own? Download our quick guide to getting started. You can also download icebreaker questions to help get your discussion started, and a social media guide to show how you can share your reading with others online.

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Discussion guides

We know how useful a discussion guide is for your book club meeting, so here you’ll find some recent guides provided by publishers. Free to download, you can use them to help choose your next book and guide your discussion.

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