THE armchair travels of a group of bookworms will take them to Wigan, Mexico and the Hindu Kush over the next year.

Richmond Readers' Circle holds its first meeting of the new season at the town's library, in Dundas Street, on Thursday, September 6, at 7.30pm.

It is an open meeting, when members take along a recommended book to share with the group.

The October session looks at The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene, which is set in Mexico. In November, members discuss poems of beauty and truth and the book for December is The Queen of the Tambourines, by Jane Gardam.

In January, the group will discuss Pies and Prejudice, an amusing look at the north by Wigan's Stuart Maconie.

Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse is the subject for February, the March meeting examines Strangers, by Taichi Yamada, and A Walk in the Hindu Kush, by Eric Newby, is the book for April.

Members look at The Go Between in May, Margaret Attwood's Alias Grace in June and The Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith, in July.

All meetings are at 7.30pm on the first Thursday of the month and new members are welcome.