Presented by Helen Ottaway, Karen Stewart and Sheila Hedges.

There are over 30 reading groups in Frome – we are a town that likes reading and discussing! The FromeFM group will talk, if not about the book itself, then the various ideas that came to mind when reading.

Join the presenters by sending in news of your reading group, or making comments about the book under discussion.

If you want to join a group or start a new one, then visit the local library for help and advice – they have a list of books where they have multiple copies!

As May is National Crime Reading Month, on May 25th we discussed two books with police inspectors as the protagonists – Xavier-Marie Bonnot’s The First Man set in France, and Andrea Camilleri, Montalbano’s first case & other stories which is set in Sicily. Our guest was Tina Waller, who came to the studio at the end of her first week as the new manager at Winstone’s Hunting Raven.

On June 22nd we move to the new time of 2 pm – an hour later. We will be looking at Russia and discussing Russian short stories from Pushkin to Buida edited by Robert Chandler and Leon Trotsky – A Revolutionary’s Life, a biography by Joshua Rubenstein. We will be joined by Kirsty Jensson, who will be talking about the WRVS and the Home Library Service – a literary lifeline for those readers who are unable to get to the library.

Please join us in reading one (or more !) of the books and adding your comments to the programme by emailing books@nullfrome.fm