Some members had difficulty getting past the descriptions of monotonous well-digging (which was clearly a feat of hard manual labour without the benefit of safety equipment in rural Turkey in the 1980s).
While we didn’t find Changing Places a laugh-out-loud tour de force as hoped, members certainly did enjoy this farce
Rebecca Skloot’s book weaves the story of the life of African American woman, Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) and her family in Virginia
In Wild Island, the plot of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is used by author Jennifer Livett as a literary device to interest the reader in the history of another Jane – Jane Franklin,
There’s got to be a lemon in any book list and for many of our members the latest book, Wedding Bush Road, by David Francis, has been it.
A two hour discussion is usually a bit of a sign that a book has engaged members, and that was the case at the Book Club meeting on 6 July.
To recognise the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in November 1917 (albeit, somewhat belatedly)
Should we make the effort to read the classics or is it enough to watch the TV series or movie of the book?
Apart from some incredulity at a few contrivances in the plot, club members generally found themselves intrigued with Jessie Burton’s second novel
Everyone at our bookclub night in February, and those who sent in their comments, liked The Women in Black.
