Before Reese Witherspoon and Zoella's Book Clubs, there was Oprah Winfrey and Richard and Judy. And before them, there was Hugh Walpole and the Book Society. This is the story of Britain's first celebrity book club and the judges who changed how we read. For forty years between 1929-1969, the Book Society chose from the best of world literature to mail out one book a month - fiction, history, travel, or biography - to subscribers in over thirty countries. The judges established what a good 'book club book' looked like: ...
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Before Reese Witherspoon and Zoella's Book Clubs, there was Oprah Winfrey and Richard and Judy. And before them, there was Hugh Walpole and the Book Society. This is the story of Britain's first celebrity book club and the judges who changed how we read. For forty years between 1929-1969, the Book Society chose from the best of world literature to mail out one book a month - fiction, history, travel, or biography - to subscribers in over thirty countries. The judges established what a good 'book club book' looked like: well-written, entertaining, informative; worth investing your time and money in, not too highbrow nor obscure. Making book-buying easier, they started a revolution. And the legacy of their taste is still with us on bookshelves today. Hugh Walpole, J. B. Priestley, Sylvia Lynd, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Edmund Blunden were the literary influencers of their day; household names whose personal lives, affairs, and politics informed their recommendations, mixing the personal and professional; social history with the domestic; love, disappointment, and war. They made global bestsellers with books that saw readers through Empire and the growth of fascism and antisemitism, the Great Depression, Spanish Civil War, and World War Two. Recommended! explores how a group of writers shook up the interwar book world, changing forever how we buy and think about books.
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