On this page you will find reading guides for some of our most popular reading group books. Each month we will add new guides and recommend a guide from the archives. We hope that this page can give help for this week's book group choice and give inspiration for future book group choices. Within the guides you will find a mixture of the following: suggested questions for discussion, author interviews, cast of characters, critical reception, suggested further reading and much more. Please do email vintagebooks@randomhouse.co.uk with any feedback you may have after using our guides. We would love to hear from you.

Recommendation

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Celebrate 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens with Great Expectations.

Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. His desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.

Download the reading guide here.

Portsmouth reads, in association with Vintage Classics, celebrate Dickens' bicentennial year with a host of events throughout 2012. Please click here for more information.