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The Daily Telegraph is to launch its own book club with a regular readers group holding meetings in independent bookshops around the country, the newspaper's head of books Gaby Wood told delegates at the Book Industry Conference this morning (Tuesday 18th May).
A competition will be staged shortly, calling for Telegraph readers to write in explaining why they want to be one of the book club participants and submitting a sample review. Six entrants will then be selected and will meet once a month to discuss the chosen books.
"We hope to stage the meetings in independent bookshops, not in London but around the country in places where our readership is strong, like Tunbridge Wells," said Wood.
"We'll then offer a discount voucher in the paper to be spent on that night in that particular bookshop."
Wood, who became head of books in January, said she'd been appointed to her role not just to be a literary editor but also to bring books into the Telegraph "in new ways". She added that the Telegraph's recent Corduroy Mansions online novel serialisations by Alexander McCall Smith had been "the most successful online venture we've engaged with at the Telegraph" and that
the paper wanted to "repeat and expand" the initiative.
The newspaper will also be doing more to push the Dartington Ways with Words Festival with
which it has a long association, Wood said.