Reading groups

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

New reading groups at Ealing Central Library

Urdu Reading Group and Punjabi Reading Group

All-bar-Fiction Book Club
A new book club to read and discuss non-fiction books - starts 18 September

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

August	Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never let me go
September	Tropper, Jonathan - How not to talk to a widower
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 we are 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

August	Adichie, Ngozi Chimamanda - Half of a yellow sun
September	Thomas, Rosie - Sun at midnight
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

August	Weir, Alison - (various)
September	Rubenfeld, Jed - The interpretation of murder

Northolt Reading Group
The reading group is held on the second Thursday of each month at 6.30pm. If you are interested in joining the group contact Vipon Thakur at Northolt Library, Church Road, Northolt, UB5 5AS.
Tel: (020) 8845 3380.

Reading list

August	Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
September	Grant, Linda - Clothes on their backs
October	Hosseini, Khalid - A thousand splendid suns
November	Lewycka, Marina - Short history of tractors in Ukrainian
December	Thompson, Flora - Lark rise to candleford

Two new reading groups are starting at Ealing Central Library

The evening group will meet on the third Thursday of the month at 6.30pm. The first meeting is on 28th August.
The second meeting will be on 18th September when we will be joined by the author Kate Mosse to discuss her book Sepulchre.

The daytime group will meet on the first Thursday of each month at 10am-11.30am. The first meeting is on 4th September.

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

Urdu Reading Group
Open to both men and women to encourage reading and discussion of their favourite books. Urdu reading group meet Wednesdays, monthly, 6pm-7.30pm at Southall Library. Next meetings for 2008:

27 August
9 October

For further information telephone Shahid Hussain on (020) 8810 7664 or email: shussain@ealing.gov.uk

Punjabi Reading Group
Open to both men and women to encourage reading and discussion of their favourite books. Punjabi reading group meet Tuesdays monthly, 6pm-7.30pm at Southall Library. Next meetings for 2008:

30 Sep
28 Oct

For further information telephone Shahid Hussain on (020) 8810 7664 or email: shussain@ealing.gov.uk

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).

We will discuss the first book on 18 September, 6.30pm-7.30pm at Northfields Library, Northfields Avenue, Ealing W5 4UA. Tel: (020) 8567 5700 (near Northfields tube), and then meet on a Thursday once a month.

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