The Rick O'Shea Book Club is Ireland's largest book club with 40,000 members in over 100 countries - and they've just launched their annual Xmas Appeal.
This is the sixth year of the ROSBC Xmas Appeal - to date, it has raised over €190,000 in aid of Irish charities since 2018.
This year's chosen charities are the DSPCA (Dublin Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals), Fighting Words NI (a Belfast-based charity providing free creative writing opportunities for schools, youth groups and young writers aged 6 to 18 in both Catholic and Protestant areas all across Northern Ireland), Epilepsy Ireland (who provide support and education, raise public awareness, conduct effective advocacy and support research for people with Epilepsy all across the country) and My Lovely Horse Rescue, involved in the rescue and rehabilitation of horses, goats, pigs, donkeys (and even some dogs) in Leinster and further afield.
Last year's campaign received an unexpected boost from a celebrity book lover.
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The ROSBC has been run on Facebook since 2014 by RTE Gold's Rick O'Shea, and remains a choice destination for lively literary discussion.
Rick O'Shea says: "All I ask is that if you have gotten any enjoyment from the ROSBC this year, like the radio show, or want to support the work of some amazing organisations, consider donating the price of a book for these incredibly worthy causes. How much that book costs is up to you."
Find out more about (and donate to) The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2023 here.
