PTA Podcast Book Club

Welcome to my Virtual Book Club where we enjoy reading books featuring PTAs as part of the storyline! Episode 36 has all the details about how the book club will work.

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Episode 36

How the Book Club works

My forthcoming episode will give you all the details, but if you would like to join in with the PTA Podcast Book Club, then sign up to my mailing list so I can let you know which book we are reading and when.

Then look out for my email to start reading and I will also let you know how to send me your review and thoughts when you have finished the book.

I will talk about each book on a future episode and I would love to include your thoughts on it. All the books are listed below — order from your local library or use the links below to buy. I do receive a small commission if you use these links.

— On the reading pile —

Book Selections

This term's read Starting April 2026

The Hive

by Gill Hornby

“Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of friendships, fights and feuding — and that's just the mothers. Meet: Beatrice, undisputed queen bee. Heather, desperate to volunteer, desperate to be noticed, desperate just to belong. Georgie, desperate for a fag. Rachel, once Bea's best friend, now dumped for no good reason. Can she survive the year as an outcast, and maybe even thrive?”

Buy at Waterstones …or order from your local library

Coming up

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association

by Caitlin Rozakis

“When Vivian's kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep stocked up on chew toys, and play PTA politics with sirens and chthonic nymphs and people who literally can set her hair on fire. As Vivian careens from hellhounds in the school corridors to demons at the talent show, she races to keep up with all the arcane secrets of her new society — shops only accessible by magic portal, the brutal Trials to enter high school, and the eternal inferno that is the parents' WhatsApp group. And looming over everything is a prophecy of doom that sounds suspiciously like it's about Aria…”

Buy at Waterstones …or order from your local library

Coming up

The School Gate Survival Guide

by Kerry Fisher

“Maia is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. With mops and buckets in tow, she spends her days dashing from house to house cleaning up after them, as they rush from one exhausting Pilates class to the next. But an unusual inheritance catapults her and her children into the very exclusive world of Stirling Hall School — a place where no child can survive without organic apricots and no woman goes a week without a manicure. As Maia and her children, Bronte and Harley, try to settle into their new life, Maia is inadvertently drawn to the one man who can help her family fit in. But is his interest in her purely professional? And will it win her any favours at the school gate?”

Buy at Waterstones …or order from your local library

Coming up

Murder at the PTA

by Laura Alden

“As the owner of a children's bookshop in the quaint town of Lynwood, Wisconsin, and a mother of two, Beth Kennedy has a full plate. So when her best friend Marina asks her to become secretary for Tarver Elementary School's PTA, Beth can think of better ways to spend what little free time she has — but after some arm-twisting, she agrees to come on board. The course of PTA meetings never has run smoothly, but when Tarver's unpopular principal turns up dead, Beth realises that wheat-free bake sales weren't the only things on the agenda. As the local gossip blog fans the flames of speculation, it seems everyone is a suspect — especially certain members of the PTA. Beth must race to find the killer before he teaches another fatal lesson.”

World of Books Waterstones …or your local library