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16/12/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The December read for the book club is “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton sets out to ‘draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a […]

15/09/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The September read for the book club is “Somebody Loves You” by Mona Arshi. “A teacher asked me a question and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again.” Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother […]

16/06/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The June read for the book club is “Silverview” by John Le Carré. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a few months into his new career, Edward, a Polish émigré, shows up at his doorstep […]

12/05/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The May read for the book club is “Stoner” by John Williams. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English Literature changes his life and he never returns to work on his father’s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet […]

14/04/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The April read for the book club is “The Promise” by Damon Galgut. The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathered for Ma’s funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stands for – not least the […]

17/03/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The March read for the book club is “Memento Mori” by Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each: “Remember you must die”. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls and in the resulting flurry […]

24/02/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The February read for the book club is “There There” by Tommy Orange. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That’s why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle’s death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and […]

20/01/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The January read for the book club is “Snow” by John Banville. Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House, the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. Facing obstruction from all angles, Strafford carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the murderer. […]

18/11/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The November read for the book club is “Desertion” by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the dust stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man […]

21/10/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The October read for the book club is “Travels with my Aunt” by Graham Greene. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel […]