Reading Group Guides

Resources:

Text publishes a number of perfect book club reads. These are the stories that will engage you, challenge your thinking and prompt interesting debate. To help get the conversation flowing, download our reading group guides for your next book club meeting.

The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable is about childhood, about destiny, about being an outsider. It is a novel about the riddle of experience itself.

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Link to the Reading Group Notes.

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Adorján, Johanna - An Exclusive Love – 395kb document

Anam, Tahmima - The Good Muslim – 746kb document

Ash, Romy - Floundering – 446kb document

Bail, Murray - The Pages – 433kb document

Beckett, Bernard - Genesis – 435kb document

Coetzee, J.M. - The Childhood of Jesus – 537kb document

Coren, Victoria - For Richer, For Poorer – 580kb document

Daisley, Stephen - Traitor – 409kb document

Darrieussecq, Marie - All the Way – 103kb document

Davidson, Andrew - The Gargoyle – 436kb document

Dugdall, Ruth - The Woman Before Me – 446kb document

Funder, Anna - Stasiland – 614kb document

Garner, Helen - The Spare Room – 315kb document

Grenville, Kate - The Secret River – 420kb document

Hodgman, Helen - Blue Skies – 359kb document

Holden, Kate - The Romantic – 480kb document

Hornung, Eva - Dog Boy – 517kb document

Hyland, M.J. - This Is How – 545kb document

Johnston, Tony - Bone by Bone – 426kb document

Jones, Lloyd - Hand Me Down World – 496kb document

Jones, Lloyd - Mr Pip – 402kb document

Jordan, Toni - Addition – 474kb document

Jordan, Toni - Fall Girl – 556kb document

Jordan, Toni - Nine Days – 529kb document

Koch, Herman - The Dinner – 465kb document

Marsden, John - Hamlet, A Novel – 319kb document

Martel, Yann - Beatrice and Virgil – 391kb document

Montgomery, Beth - Murderer's Thumb – 631kb document

Rash, Ron - Serena – 433kb document

Rash, Ron - The Cove – 383kb document

Rudd, Jessica - Campaign Ruby – 469kb document

Ruiz Zafon, Carlos - The Shadow of the Wind – 749kb document

Shriver, Lionel - We Need to Talk about Kevin – 544kb document

Simsion, Graeme - The Rosie Project – 397kb document

St John, Madeleine - The Women in Black – 465kb document

Strachan, Mari - The Earth Hums in B Flat – 782kb document

Taylor, Cory - Me and Mr Booker – 511kb document

Temple, Peter - The Broken Shore – 543kb document

Temple, Peter - Truth – 378kb document