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The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club
’s First Book of the Month Club Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some controversy.
Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. Whiteoaks, by an unfamiliar Canadian writer, Mazo de la Roche, was the seventh monthly ‘choice’ of the society, Britain’s first subscription book-of-the-month club, begun in April that same year. The novel confirmed the club’s taste for entertaining page-turners; books that were worth investing time and money in, though not too complex or ‘highbrow’.
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