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Reading groups

Acton, Greenford, Hanwell, and Northfields reading groups meet once a month to read a selected book.  

Ealing Central Reading Groups - daytime and evening group meet once a month.


All-bar-Fiction Book Club
A new book club to read and discuss non-fiction books  

Reader2Reader
A site for readers to share opinions about books they have read - good or bad. Readers can chat live online about their favourite books, join the online reading group, search for book reviews, or find out about good books.

Acton Reading Group:
The reading group meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 6.30pm. If you are interested in joining the group please contact Anthony Momoh, Acton Library, 119 High Street, Acton, London, W3 6NA. Tel: (020) 8752 0999.

Reading list
October: Eliot, George - Middlemarch
November: Ludulum, Robert and Larkin, Patrick, - The Moscow vector
December: Brooks, Geraldine - March  
January: Shreve, Anita - Light on snow
February: Russell, Mary Doria - A thread of grace
March: Bakopoulos, Dean - Please don't come back from the moon

Greenford Reading Group:
The reading group meets on the last Thursday of each month at 6.30pm. The group is currently full so it's not encouraging new membership. For further information please contact Rob Rosset, Greenford Library, Oldfield Lane South, Greenford UB6 9LG. Tel: (020) 8578 1466.

Reading list
October: Spark, Muriel - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Hanwell Reading Group:
The reading group meets the first Tuesday of each month 10am-11.30am. To join the group please phone the library on (020) 8567 5041.

Northfields Reading Group:
The reading group is held on the first Tuesday of each month at 6.30pm, at Northfield Avenue, Ealing, London W5 4UA. The group is currently full so we are not encouraging new membership. (Members who would like to join can be added to our waiting list). For further information please Tel: (020) 8567 5041.

Reading list
October: Rubenfeld, Jed - The interpretation of murder
November: Weir, Alison - Any book 
December: Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith

Ealing Central Reading Groups:
The evening group will meet on the third Thursday of each month at 6.30pm.

The daytime group will meet on the first Thursday of each month at 10am-11.30am.

To join either group phone Ealing Central Library, Tel: (020) 8567 3670 or email reading@ealing.gov.uk

Ealing Central Library is on the first floor of the Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, W5 5JY

All-bar-Fiction Book Club:
A new book club to read and discuss non-fiction books. (e.g. history, criticism, science, arts, travel, biographies, popular philosophy, psychology). 

The book club meet on the third Thursday of each month, 6.30pm-7.30pm at Northfields Library, Northfields Avenue, Ealing W5 4UA. Tel: (020) 8567 5700 (near Northfields tube).

Reading list
October: Mullan, John -   How novels works 
November: Barnes, Julian - Nothing to be frightened

NB. This is an independent group not run by the library service.