A ´reader group´ is small group of people who meet regularly to talk about books. The British Council Bilbao reader groups began in spring 2006. There are two groups at the moment, one that meets monthly on Tuesday evenings and one that meets fortnightly on Wednesday evenings.

The groups are open to all adults who enjoy reading and like talking about it.  It is not necessary to be a British Council student to join a group.  

Typically, the group decides on a book together, the members then go away and read it and then meet up again to discuss it. In recent months participants have read and discussed the following books:

Books read and discussed so far in 2007/08 have been the following:

Cloud Atlas   David Mitchell

Restless  William Boyd

In the Country of Men  Hisham Matar

Scandal Takes a Holiday  Lindsey Davis

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things  Jon  McGregor

Case Histories  Kate Atkinson

Disobedience  Naomi alderman Sovereign  C J Sansom

Books read and discussed so far in 2006/07 have been the following:

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

How to be good by Nick Hornby

Praying Mantis by André Brink

Buddha Da by Anne Donovan

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

26a by Diana Evans

I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train by Peter Hobbs

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

In 2006 these books were read and talked about:

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes

The American Boy by Andrew Taylor

Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith

If you would like more information please send an email to:  martin.stanley@britishcouncil.es or phone him on 94 476 36 50

Do you like reading poetry in English? Have a look here.