Join a Reading Force book club and read more amazing books, for free!
Check out our THREE AMAZING new titles for our adult book clubs!
New volunteer coordinators can choose from:
- Capital by John Lanchester,
- Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud, or
- Skios by Michael Frayn
See more information here about the available titles for the other free books.
Reading benefits your physical, mental and spiritual health, and those benefits can last a lifetime*.
Volunteer coordinators will be supported by Nicola to run their book club and each member will receive three FREE books from Reading Force.
Capital
From the bestselling author of Whoops! Capital, is a moving, funny and keenly insightful story of London on the brink of the financial crisis.
The residents of Pepys Road, London – an English banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder – all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want?
As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents’ lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year.
Love After Love
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2020. Brave and brilliant, steeped in affection, Love After Love offers hope to anyone who has loved and lost and has yet to find their way back.
Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their marvellous lodger, Mr Chetan, form an unconventional household. Happy in their differences, they build a home together. Home: the place keeping these three safe from an increasingly dangerous world – until the night when a glass of rum, a heart to heart and a terrible truth explodes the family unit, driving them apart.
Skios
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Skios is a story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences.
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation’s annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming – not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation’s guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser.
Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki’s old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality…
If you would like to know more about coordinating a book club within your military community, get in touch with Nicola – nicola@readingforce.org.uk or call 07519665410.
*Hansa Pankhania, News from BACP, World Book Day: The mental health benefits of reading, 3 March 2022