Registrations are now being taken for the 2009 Read Around Canberra Program which will be led by Canberra writer, teacher and freelance editor Susan Hampton.

Susan's book The Kindly Ones won the ArtsACT Judith Wright Award in 2006 and was shortlisted for the NSW and Victoria Premiers' awards for poetry, the Age Book of the Year Award, and the ACT Book of the Year Award.

Read Around Canberra groups have been organised for:

• Dickson Library on the first Tuesday of the month commencing 3 February, 7.30-9.30pm,
• Kippax Library on the first Wednesday of the month commencing 4 February, 7.30-9.30pm,
• Civic Library on the first Thursday of the month commencing 5 February, 7.30-9.30pm, and
• Woden Library on the first Saturday of the month commencing 7 February at 2-4pm.

Books for 2009 cover a range of themes, styles and nationalities, and include:

• The Gathering by Anne Enright,
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy,
• Home by Marilynne Robinson,
• The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville, and 
• The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy.

For full details and a booking form, visit the library web site. Sign up now so you don't miss out. $130 for the full year (ten sessions).