Third Tuesday of the month at 6pm
Enjoy reading, want to share old favourites, or new discoveries? Then join in the friendly informal discussion on this month's book. This is an open group, with new members welcome and copies of the current title available from the library counter.
The library is open, so why not come early and browse the shelves?
The group will be reading the following books during 2012:
21 February - The Door by Magda Szabo
20 March - Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
17 April - Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
15 May - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie
19 June - Eric and Us by Jacintha Buddicom
17 July - Making of Mr Hai's Daughter by Jasmin Hai
21 August - Chronicler of the Wind by Henning Mankell
18 September - Dissolution by C J Sansom
16 October - Woman in Black by Susan Hill
20 November - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
18 December - Island by Victoria Hislop
Recent Recommendations
During our discussions, people often enthuse about books they have enjoyed or that have moved them. Here are some titles that have been mentioned recently.
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
An 'out-and-out thriller written by someone who can really write'. Adam Kindred is in the wrong place at the wrong time, finds his life turned upside down leaving him no choice but to disappear amongst London's dregs.
Summer Book by Tove Jansson
A lyrical sequence of stories about Sophia and her grandmother during Summer spent on a remote Island in the Gulf of Finland. Superb!
Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
An account of a year in which, apart from books she was contracted to review, she only read those books that she already had or had been given, the many titles that she had been keeping to read "one day". This rang bells for everyone at the meeting. What reader hasn't got one or two or more unread books at home!
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
A vivid autobiography set in the Maelor and Whitchurch. With an (largely) absent father and a docile mother, Lorna Sage's early life was dominated by her eccentric grandfather, a clergyman who had been exiled to a small village on the Shropshire/Cheshire/Wales border, and her equally strong-willed grandmother