Bord Gais Energy is to launch an online book club Monday 6th September. The site is live now at www.bordgaisenergybookclub.ie.
The book club will feature a rotating panel of reviewers including Bert Wright who is the administrator of the Irish Book Awards, a celebrity author and a librarian from one of the 369 public libraries in Ireland.
The first month features Skippy Dies, the Man Booker nominated book by Irishman Paul Murray, which will be reviewed by Bishopstown librarian David O’Brien. Amanda Brunker will review Fogive And Forget by Patricia Scanlan and Bert Wright will review, bestseller, The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
This marks the fifth book related promotion by Bord Gais Energy who also support The Irish Book Awards, The Irish Book of The Decade, TV3′s Ireland AM Book Club and the Readiscover Your Local Library campaign.
The competition for book readers attention is heating up with the Irish Independent launching their own book club in August and The Irish Times launched an online book club earlier in 2010.
However there are some 500 private book clubs in the country and if the attendance at the Ennis Book Club Festival is anything to go by, there is no danger of readers falling out of love with book clubs anytime soon.
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