A new chapter: Join the Shropshire Star Book Club
Welcome to the launch of the Shropshire Star Book Club. Each month we will feature two new titles, offering you an exclusive preview of both at shropshirestar.com.
And we will be inviting you to get reading and to pass on your views.
We aim to get more people reading and create a lively debate both online and in-paper.
Book clubs are more popular than ever, with scores of groups meeting across the county as a way of widening their reading and joining like-minded people socially.
There is nothing better than sharing a great book with friends.
And today the Shropshire Star is allowing you to get involved by getting stuck into these two titles.
An Unwilling Accomplice is the latest from the pen of Charles Todd, the New York Times bestselling author.
It also happens to be linked with Shropshire, with the beautiful Iron Bridge featuring prominently on the cover of this latest novel.
Todd's book is for adults, but we today also feature a book for younger readers.
Check out our book choices at shropshirestar.com/bookclub and leave your reviews
Fire Colour One by Jenny Valentine is targeted at teenagers and is an exciting novel with a page-turning plot and plenty of twists.
The Shropshire Star has found two panels of readers to read each book, who will give their views in the paper next month.
But you can get in first by reading our taster chapters at shropshirestar.com/bookclub.
If you like what you read, buy or borrow the book and then leave your own review in the comments boxes under each book's preview at shropshirestar.com/bookclub - or you can send your review in to us at Book Club, Newsdesk, Shropshire Star, Ketley TF1 5HU.
Carrie Morris, of Booka Bookshop and Cafe in Oswestry, today said the new Shropshire Star Book Club was a "fantastic idea". She said: "Book clubs are an exciting and enjoyable part of what we do. We run five book clubs – two adult clubs and three children's book clubs.
"They have proved to be hugely popular and our children's book clubs are oversubscribed. Book clubs provide an opportunity for people to interact and chat about a wide range of books – often discovering and enjoying books they would not normally have selected to read. The best discussions tend to happen when the group has divided opinions on a title."
