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The Club: A Reese's Book Club Pick Hardcover – March 1, 2022

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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Are you ready for the roller coaster ride that is The Club ? . . . A beautifully written, densely plotted murder mystery that takes place at a private club off the coast of England. Read about a luxurious, celeb-only island during a weekend of partying and ultimately murder.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club March ’22 Pick)

From the author of People Like Her comes a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs.

Everyone's Dying to Join . . .

The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media.

The most spectacular of all is Island Home—a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast—and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade.

But behind the scenes, tensions are at breaking point: the ambitious and expensive project has pushed the Home Group's CEO and his long-suffering team to their absolute limits. All of them have something to hide—and that's before the beautiful people with their own ugly secrets even set foot on the island. 

As tempers fray and behavior worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up, some of Island Home’s members will begin to wish they’d never made the guest list.

Because at this club, if your name’s on the list, you’re not getting out.

• Print length 320 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Harper
• Publication date March 1, 2022
• Dimensions 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches
• ISBN-10 0062997424
• ISBN-13 978-0062997425
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"A smart, stylish and savage thriller that goes straight for the jugular." — People (Book of the Week)

"Masterly thriller . . . Lloyd (husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) makes the reader care about even unappealing characters, and the payoff is completely satisfying. Fans of Ruth Ware’s  One by One  will be riveted." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

" The Club  is something very different: a super-glamorous locked-room (locked island, really) murder mystery. . . . Glitzy and twisty, it’s tons of fun." — The Guardian

"A satisfying and multifaceted thriller. As in Lucy Foley’s smash  The Guest List , readers see the plot unfold from multiple angles while the characters' dirty secrets are revealed. A perfect suggestion for lovers of locked-room and island mysteries." — Booklist

"Deliciously sinister." — Popsugar

" The Club  is a clever murder mystery that provides thrills and gasps galore, as well as a pointed and clear-eyed cautionary tale about the downsides of money and fame." — BookPage

"Utterly riveting . . . Perfect for readers of twisty novels and star-studded casts, The Club is a glitzy, glamorous thriller with a dark and deadly mystery at its heart. If you’re ready for an escape from domestic suspense, plan your next trip to Island Home." — Bookreporter

“A shamelessly juicy read about murder and the dirty secrets of the rich, beautiful, and famous.” — Daily Mail (London)

"Written with ruthless detail, The Club is a startling dissection of celebrity culture, masterfully told." — Eliza Jane Brazier, author of If I Disappear

"Loved it. A razor-sharp satire on the uber-elite that ramps up the revelations to a deeply satisfying reckoning as justice is served on the many splendidly unlikeable characters. . . . A fantastic read." — Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange and The Lies You Told

“Super clever, silky smooth, and brilliantly wicked, The Club is a triumph and a treat—one of the most riveting books I’ve read in a long time.” — Louise Candlish, author of The Other Passenger

“You’ll need to keep your wits about you as you enter  The Club . Shady business practices, moral dilemmas and a cast of characters who all have something to hide . . . but which one will kill to keep their secrets? This had me second-guessing all the way through and I didn’t come up for air until I got to the end. A triumph!” — Sandie Jones, author of The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip

“ The Club is a wholly addictive thriller, a clever blend of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and murder. A page turner from start to finish.” — Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife and For Your Own Good

About the Author

Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for the London-based husband-and-wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. Collette is a journalist and editor, the former content director of Elle (UK), and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for the Guardian, the Telegraph , and the Sunday Times . Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day Is Like Sunday. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich. They are the authors of People Like Her and The Club.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper; First Edition (March 1, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062997424
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062997425
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.03 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches
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Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos.

Collette is a journalist and editor, the former content director of Elle (UK) and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and the Sunday Times.

Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day is Like Sunday. He is the program director for English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Surrey.

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Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore.

It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.

By Alexandra Alter

On a recent Sunday, Lauren Groff got out of bed at three in the morning, jolted by a mix of anxiety and adrenaline.

It was opening day for The Lynx, Groff’s new bookstore in Gainesville, Fla., and her mind raced with all that could go wrong. So she drove over to the store, where she felt reassured by the presence of some 7,000 books, a collection she had helped to curate.

“I like being there alone, because I’m surrounded by all of my friends,” Groff, a best-selling novelist and three-time National Book Award finalist, said of the books.

A few hours later, she was no longer alone: By 10 a.m., about 100 people had lined up outside the store to watch as Groff cut the ribbon. More than 3,000 people showed up throughout the day for a series of author readings, folk music, live poetry composition and, of course, to buy books.

Groff and her husband, Clay Kallman, had toyed with the idea of opening a bookstore in Gainesville for more than a decade, but the timing never felt right. Groff’s writing career was taking off, and they had two young sons. But last year, as book bans surged across Florida , they decided that their town needed an independent bookstore where titles that had been purged from libraries and classrooms would be on prominent display.

“This store would probably still be a pipe dream if the book bans hadn’t happened,” said Groff, who has lived in Gainesville since 2006. “I want this for me too. I don’t want to live in a place where we stifle free expression.”

Last fall, they found an old building, a 2,300-square-foot former hair salon, on South Main Street in downtown Gainesville. They transformed it into a bookstore and event space, with a cozy reading nook in the children’s book section, a small cafe and large rolling display tables that can be wheeled away to make way for chairs.

For the front of the building, they commissioned a 60-foot-long mural of a lynx, a wildcat native to Florida , sitting sphynx-like next to the store’s motto: “Watch Us Bite Back.”

“We wanted something a little fierce,” Groff said.

Banned titles are prominently placed at The Lynx. A large display near the front of the store features frequently challenged books across the United States — among them “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood; “Beloved” by Toni Morrison; “Tricks” by Ellen Hopkins; and “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson.

Groff also hopes to make The Lynx a place where people will come together to discuss books that are being targeted. Upcoming selections for its Banned Books Book Club include “ Gender Queer ” by Maia Kobabe and “ Flamer ” by Mike Curato.

The store’s mission is also resonating outside of Florida. Since The Lynx opened, it has received about $1000 in donations from around the country. Groff plans to use the funds to distribute free copies of banned titles to Florida residents who might not otherwise have access to them.

“At a time when we in Florida need to speak out against the banning of books and against the restriction of reading, she’s going to have a real impact,” said Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Books & Books, an independent chain in South Florida, who shared advice with Groff when she was preparing to open the store.

Groff is the latest writer to try her hand at book selling, joining Ann Patchett, Louise Erdrich, Judy Blume, Emma Straub, Jenny Lawson, Leah Johnson, Jeff Kinney and others.

This January, Groff attended the Winter Institute, an annual gathering of independent bookstore owners, where she got advice from more seasoned booksellers like Straub and Patchett. Straub said she urged Groff to focus not just on the fun parts of running a bookstore, like effusing over books with customers, but also the practical elements, like learning how to manage the point-of-sales system.

“A lot of us authors don’t spend that much time thinking about that part. We think about the books and the community, all of that big picture stuff, and we don’t necessarily think about the nuts and bolts, retail-ness of it,” Straub said. “Like, oh by the way, you need a mop.”

With its focus on banned books and Florida-centric literature, The Lynx could help make Gainesville more of a literary destination — a hub for author readings, book club gatherings and workshops.

For some local authors, The Lynx already feels like an oasis of sorts.

“This place is not only very welcome, but necessary,” said Amy Hempel, a fiction writer who lives in Gainesville and gave a reading on the store’s opening day, as did the Florida authors David Leavitt, Rebecca Renner, Cynthia Barnett and Kristen Arnett.

The Lynx not only provides a gathering spot for book lovers, Hempel said, but also offers hope to residents who have been discouraged by book bans happening across the state. More than 5,100 books were banned in Florida schools from July 2021 through December 2023 — the highest number in the country, according to PEN America.

“The signal it sends to a community, to the whole state, to the country, at a really heated, difficult time, is such a positive,” Hempel said.

Gainesville isn’t exactly a book desert. It is home to the University of Florida, and has a Books-A-Million and a new Barnes & Noble. But it has lost many of its independent shops. One of its beloved bookstores, Goerings , went out of business in 2010, and another longtime independent, The Florida Bookstore, which was opened by Kallman’s grandfather in 1933 , closed in 2016.

“Gainesville has great potential to have a literary community, but we needed a bookstore,” said Alyssa Eatherly, a Gainesville resident who stopped by The Lynx on a recent evening with her friend, Katie Dreffer, to pick up copies of books that were chosen for the store’s romance book club.

“It’s nice to have something that’s not a big chain,” Dreffer added.

As more people trickled in, Groff greeted customers enthusiastically and asked if they needed recommendations or help finding a book.

“Can I show you where the kids’ section is?” she asked a little girl who came in with her mother. “What do you like?”

The girl followed Groff to the children’s area and asked for a book about ancient history.

Groff asked another shopper who was scanning the display tables if she was able to find what she was looking for. “If you see spots we need to fill, let me know, I’m on it,” she said.

A big draw of The Lynx for many readers and customers, of course, is Groff — an acclaimed writer. She has published two short story collections and five novels, among them her 2023 novel, “The Vaster Wilds,” about a girl who flees to the woods from a colonial settlement in the 1600s, and “Matrix,” her 2021 novel about nuns in medieval England.

Part of the appeal of independent bookstores is their careful curation, and booksellers’ ability to recommend titles based on customers’ interests and moods; who better to help you choose your next book than a best-selling novelist who is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader?

Next to the entrance, on a shelf full of bookseller recommendations, Groff placed a few of her own favorite novels with handwritten notes effusing about them, describing “The Transit of Venus” by Shirley Hazzard as “a work of sheer genius,” and calling “Autobiography of Red” by Anne Carson “legit bonkers brilliant.” (Groff’s husband, Kallman, has only one recommended title on the shelf — Groff’s novel, “The Vaster Wilds,” with a note that says, “It slays.”)

Groff conceded that opening the store and meeting the demands of her own writing career has been exhausting. But she’s not especially worried that selling other people’s books will get in the way of writing her own. She often gets up at 5 a.m. to write and is working on three different books.

“I have four to five hours of writing usually, if I’m not opening a bookstore,” she said.

She plans to be intimately involved in the store’s operations, which will be overseen by the store’s three booksellers and two managers.

“I want to know how to do everything so that I can step in if I have to,” she said.

At the grand opening on April 28, Groff was sweaty and frazzled but buoyed by the enthusiasm of the store’s hundreds of visitors. She got up on an outdoor stage and read from a short story titled “Ghosts and Empties” from her 2018 collection, “Florida.”

Over the course of the day, the store sold 1,011 books, including 56 copies of Groff’s, which sold out. The toilet clogged a few times, and some customers gave up because the cash register line was so long, but otherwise, the mood was celebratory.

“Not a single one of us had a breakdown,” Groff said.

Alexandra Alter writes about books, publishing and the literary world for The Times. More about Alexandra Alter

Need a book club book? These unforgettable titles are sure to spark discussion and debate

Books that make everyone happy make for boring book clubs. 

Discussions wrap up quickly when stories don’t invite readers to reflect. If we all interpret the story in the exact same way, relate to the exact same character, come to the same simple conclusion, well, there’s just not much to say. 

Even with books we all love, there’s only so much fan-girling that can be done. 

So I’m always looking for the books that spark conversation, and, to paraphrase Leonard Cohen, I’ve found that cracks let opinions in. I want flawed books and authors that experiment. I want books that tell new stories, or old stories in new ways. I want books that send readers down rabbit holes.

Here are books, new and old, that should lead to rousing discussions. 

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'Wandering Stars'

By Tommy Orange (Knopf, 336 pp.)This follow-up to his acclaimed debut, There There , takes readers through three generations of a Native family, from a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to a family grappling with the opioid epidemic of modern America. 

'The Wives'

By Simone Gorrindo (Gallery/Scout Press, 416 pp.)When her husband joins the Army, Gorrindo leaves New York City and a publishing job for Columbus, Georgia, and a writing room of her own. This is a marriage memoir, but also an intimate look at the ways women support each other, the way community is needed, built, and maintained. 

'Real Americans'

By Rachel Khong (Knopf, 416pp)Told in three parts, this story of family and class considers the American dream and the limits — and ethics — of scientific discovery. How far should we go to protect our children? 

'The Cemetery of Untold Stories'

By Julia Alvarez (Algonquin, 256 pp.)The central premise here — a graveyard for unfinished books — is delicious and sets off a novel full of people remembering and revising their own stories. 

'The Fetishist'

By Katherine Min (G.P. Putnman's Sons, 304 pp.)Darkly funny and tender, the story begins with a grieving and angry young woman seeking revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death. Things go awry, memories are uncovered, and the result is an unconventional love story and an excellent look at making art. 

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

By Shannon Chakraborty (Harper-Voyager, 496 pp.)

A 40-year-old single mother, former pirate with a bum knee, is pulled out for a final great adventure. This rollicking fantasy is based on the story of Sinbad the Sailor and is a heist story on the high seas.

'Small Mercies'

By Dennis Lehane (Harper, 320 pp.)Boston is burning up in the summer of 1974 as schools are about to be desegregated. A girl goes missing, and a desperate mother starts asking questions that could set everything on fire. 

'Transcendent Kingdom'

By Yaa Gyasi (Vintage, 304 pp.)Gifty is a scientist shaped by religion. In the wake of her brother’s death and as she cares for her mother, she grapples with faith and tries to uncover the science of addiction. 

'A Fever in The Heartland'

By Timothy Egan (Viking, 432 pp.)Here’s history you likely did not get in school: the true story of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the Midwest. Although it’s nonfiction, sometimes this feels like a horror novel. (If you like the idea of narrative history, you also might consider the work of Candice Millard, Tiya Miles, David Grann, or Erik Larson.)

'The Woman in Me'

By Britney Spears (Gallery Books, 288 pp.)Celebrity memoirs are excellent book club picks because they invite conversation about pop culture. Other ones to consider: Leslie F*cking Jones, Leslie Jones; Open Book , Jessica Simpson; I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy; The Storyteller , Dave Grohl 

'Mrs. Dalloway'

By Virginia Woolf (Penguin Classics, 240 pp.)Revisiting classics, particularly slim ones, is always a good idea for a book group if only because they’re easily available in many formats. Set in London between the wars, this novel and its themes of choice and memory remain remarkably relevant. 

More: 10 memoirs you'll want to read from Ashley C. Ford, Roxane Gay, Javier Zamora and more

'A Wrinkle in Time'

By Madeleine L’Engle (Ariel Books, 256 pp.)Another underrated book club choice: classic children’s books. Do we still think the story matters? Why does this story speak to children? What is it saying about our culture? It doesn’t have to be this one, though L’Engle’s time travelers are fun to revisit. Other contenders: The Westing Game, Charlotte’s Web, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; or Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret ?

Hillary Copsey is the book advisor at The Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Ohio.

New queer book club membership booms in just a few months

Group hopes p.e.i. library system will take note of demand for 2slgbtqa+ reading options.

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After only three meetups of Prince Edward Island's new queer book club, called P.E.I. Liberation Reads, the club has gotten so big that organizers have had to break it up into smaller groups.

Amy McKie started the group. The Montague resident told Mitch Cormier of CBC's Island Morning that when she came back to the Island from Toronto in 2021, it was hard to find a sense of community, given that she considers herself too introverted for the normal sort of organized 2SLGBTQA+ events.

"The parties or the parade and whatnot that Pride P.E.I. puts on are interesting… but I'm too shy or nervous to talk to people," she said with a laugh. "Books are my main hobby."

For McKie, who estimates she reads about 250 books a year, the club is "a way to talk about the books I like with great people."

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At the beginning, unsure how to reach potential members, she posted a message on Instagram and printed out some "rather terrible" posters and put them around Charlottetown and Montague. That proved to be enough to attract the club's surprisingly large membership in a short time; it's now hovering just above 70.  

'Just come and be themselves'

Eyitayo Ajibaibi saw a listing for the book club at a coffee shop. Her reaction was: "Yes! Finally!"

She decided to get involved as an organizer, hoping the club would keep going after the initial buzz. So far, she's loving being a part of it, the excitement obvious in her voice when she talks about it.

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"I've read, like, four books that I wouldn't have read otherwise," she said. "I wanted to say yes to everything and read everything."

Ajibaibi said she normally prefers spy thrillers, and the book club has allowed her to branch out in what she reads.

She also enjoys the social parts of it: "It's great to have a place where everyone can just come and be themselves."

'Not a lot of options'

McKie is hoping the book club will end up not just giving people a different reason to get together, but also widening what kind of books are available on the Island. 

"The library does not have a lot of options when it comes to queer books, especially queer books that aren't just… kind of white author/main character who are gay or who are lesbian. When you want to branch out at all, the availability is limited."

If the club shows that people will read books with 2SLGBTQA+ themes and authors, she's hoping the P.E.I. Public Library system will buy more of them to put on loan.

MacKie said the times and locations of future P.E.I. Liberation Reads meetups will be posted on Instagram. People can also contact [email protected] to get on the list for scheduling emails from the club.

With files from Island Morning

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