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16/09/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The September read for the book club is “Middle England” by Jonathan Coe. The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing – within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter is trying to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten that he exists, […]

17/06/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The June read for the book club is “Wake” by Anna Hope. A brilliant debut for readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, in which three women must deal with the aftershocks of WWI and its impact on the men in their lives—a son, a brother and a lover. Their tragic connection […]

20/05/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The May read for the book club is “The Big Sleep” by Raymon Chandler. Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid….He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. This […]

29/04/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The April read for the book club is “Where The Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her. […]

18/03/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The March read for the book club is “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World” by Elif Shafak. An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour ‘In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila’s consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. […]

25/02/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The February read for the book club is “The Walk Home” by Rachel Seiffert. Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Only he’s not so sure he was right to go. He’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as […]

21/01/2022 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The January read for the book club is “The Lantern Boats” by Tessa Morris-Suzuki. A WEB OF ESPIONAGE AND BETRAYAL IN OCCUPIED JAPAN DRAWS IN TIGHT. Tokyo, 1951. Elly Ruskin is still struggling to settle. Half-Japanese by heritage, Elly was repatriated to Japan after the war, but Tokyo is a city she barely knows. And […]

17/12/2021 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The December read for the book club is “Good Behaviour” by Molly Keene. I do know how to behave – believe me, because I know. I have always known…’ Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely […]

19/11/2021 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The November read for the book club is “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning” by Laurie Lee. It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, […]

15/10/2021 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The October read for the book club is “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro. In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me […]