This group is fully participatory with books and approaches decided by members who host in turn. Meetings are lively, but the Chairman always ensures speaking space for each member.

Meeting pattern: monthly, on the third Thursday morning 10.15 - 12.15.

We tackle a book a month. Recent choices are listed below. Books read in previously years are listed on a separate page, accessed by clicking the link near the bottom of this page.

Books selected -

2017

January  Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil   John Berendt

February  The Owl Service   Alan Garner

March  The Last Pilot  Benjamin Johncock

April    Meeting cancelled

May    The Elegance of the Hedgehog   (in translation)  Muriel Barbery

June   Where My Heart Used to Beat    Sebastian Faulks

July   The Glass Castle   (non-fiction)    Jeanette Walls

August  Death in Holy Orders   P D James

 September    Shane    Jack Schaefer

October      Lost Children   Maggie Gee

November   Four Quarters of Light   Brian Keenan

December   A Christmas miscellany

2018

January    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall   Anne Bronte

February    Golden Hill   Francis Spufford

March    A Thousand Acres   Jane Smiley

April     The Clergyman's Daughter        George Orwell

May       Under Western Eyes                 Joseph Conrad

July      The Machine Stops                E M Forster    (a short story)

August      Under the Net                       Iris Murdoch

September.         The Green Road                 Anne Enright

 October         Someone at a Distance     Dorothy Whipple

November       The Bees      Laline Paul

December    special programme - The Seven Ages of Man (readings)

2019

January    Memento Mori    Muriel Spark

February    Munich   Robert Harris

 March    Brave New World    Aldous Huxley

April     The Uncommon Reader & The Laying on of Hands     Alan Bennett

May     Slow Horses    Mick Herron

June     Journey by Moonlight   Antal Szerb

July     How Far Can you Go?    David Lodge

August     Dimension of Miracles    Robert Sheckley

September    Sweet Caress     William Boyd

                               The June Meeting will be held in Shingle Street

The books we have read in previous years are on the additional page, accessed by clicking here.

Contact:  Click here to send an email to the leader.

Please refer to the entry in the Members' Handbook for more contact details.