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Book clubs
A book at B
each holidays and books go
together like bread and butter or,
more appropriately, sun and sand.
So it seems only fitting that the
Caribbean, one of the world’s foremost beach
destinations, is the launch-pad for what is
beach time
believed to be the first holiday book club.
Last month, The Verandah Resort in
Antigua started the first chapter in an initia-
tive that it hopes will breathe new life into
holiday reading with the start of a reading
No holiday is complete without a good holiday read.
group, backed by publisher Penguin Books.
Bestselling British author Jane Green,
Sara Macefield visits The Verandah in Antigua to find famous for chick-lit reads such as Jemima J,
out about a new craze for book clubs in the Caribbean,
Straight Talking and, most recently, The Beach
and also suggests some other literary options
House, was flown in to help launch the club.
The concept is so breathtakingly simple
you wonder why it has not been done before.
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