What we’re about
I would like to create a book club where you can enjoy reading a book and then discussing it informally, over a drink - tea, coffee or something stronger!
If you like to read and would like to share your thoughts with others, then this group is for you. I want this to be a book group for the members so books can be chosen by members and the discussions can be shaped as members would like. Nothing too heavy though! There will be a chance as well for some social networking time if you are interested but this of course is up to you.
The meetup fees are quite alot to run the group so I ask for a small contribution from each member to cover these costs. This needs paying by 01 Sep each year.
On line meetings so everyone is welcome no matter your location.
To cover the meetup fees members need to pay £3 annual fee due 01 September each year (or before signing up to your first meeting during the year). The link to pay is here. Please add your surname as reference.
https://pay.collctiv.com/meetup-book-club-65142
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- our book for APRIL Spring by Ali SmithLink visible for attendees
We have chosen for this month:
# Spring by Ali Smith
Please help to cover the meetup fees. Members need to pay £3 annual fee due 01 September each year (or before signing up to your first meeting during the year). If everyone pays just a little we can continue on Meetup. The link to pay is here. Please add your surname as reference.
https://pay.collctiv.com/meetup-book-club-65142Spring published in 2019 follows a string of characters and explores themes like immigration and human nature in general, as well as the aftermath of the EU referendum and growing tensions in the UK.
A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. The books stane alone but there are connections to others in the series.
Ali Smith is a writer, born in August 1962. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. in American and Irish modernism until 1990. During her time at Cambridge, she began writing plays and as a result, did not complete her doctorate.
WARNING - there are some themes in the book that not all readers may enjoy reading about. Please take a look at reviews yourself if you wish to check this out.
- our book for MAY - The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna QuinnLink visible for attendees
We have chosen for this month:
# The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Please help to cover the meetup fees. Members need to pay £3 annual fee due 01 September each year (or before signing up to your first meeting during the year). If everyone pays just a little we can continue on Meetup. The link to pay is here. Please add your surname as reference.
https://pay.collctiv.com/meetup-book-club-65142This is the story of a whale that washes up on a beach, whose bones are claimed by a twelve-year-old girl with big ambitions and an even bigger imagination...
Joanna Quinn was born in London in 1962 and now lives in Dorset. The book was chosen by HM Queen Camilla for her book club, a Sunday Times best seller and shortlisted for Best Debut Fiction at the British Book Awards.
WARNING - there are some themes in the book that not all readers may enjoy reading about. Please take a look at reviews yourself if you wish to check this out.
- our book for JUNE Human Traces by Sebastian FaulksLink visible for attendees
We have chosen for this month:
# Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Please help to cover the meetup fees. Members need to pay £3 annual fee due 01 September each year (or before signing up to your first meeting during the year). If everyone pays just a little we can continue on Meetup. The link to pay is here. Please add your surname as reference.
https://pay.collctiv.com/meetup-book-club-65142Set in early twenteeth century two psychiatrists try to understand more on mental illness encountering the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to lecture halls in Paris and beyond.
Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces is historical fiction that explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
Written in 2005 it took Faulks five years to research and write. Faulks was born in April 1953 in Berkshire, studied English at Cambridge, and has written over 20 books, many of them bestsellers.
WARNING - there are some themes in the book that not all readers may enjoy reading about. Please take a look at reviews yourself if you wish to check this out.
- our book for JULY - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieLink visible for attendees
We have chosen for this month:
# The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
To cover the meetup fees members need to pay £3 annual fee due 01 September each year (or before signing up to your first meeting during the year). The link to pay is here. Please add your surname as reference.
https://pay.collctiv.com/meetup-book-club-65142Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing.
First published in 1926, it is said to be one of her best novels. It is one of 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Agatha was born in 1890 but has written stories that have stood the test of time
WARNING - there are some themes in the book that not all readers may enjoy reading about. Please take a look at reviews yourself if you wish to check this out.
