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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.
