Book Club

Next meeting: 29th April 2024 - 7:30pm

Our bookclub book for April is Katherine May's extraordinary manifesto Enchantment, which encourages us to reconnect with

the beauty and power of the world around us.

Katherine's writes with a clarity that is illuminating and

this is a book to treasure.

Pop in to the shop to pick up your copy.

All welcome!

Future meetings:

27th May 2024 - 7:30pm

TBA!

We'll update with further dates for in 2024 soon!

Recent Book Club Reads

March	In Memoriam	Alice Winn	We discussed this top five Sunday Times Bestseller!
February	The Silence Project	Carole Hailey	Carole joined us to discuss her incredible novel.
January	In The Blink of an Eye	Jo Callaghan	We discussed the dazzling debut that asks us what we think it means to be human.
November	A Quiet Contagion	Jane Jesmond	We were joined by Jane to talk about her most recent book!
October	The Guilty Gardener	Annabel Christie	Annabel joined us in the shop to discuss her charming memoir.
September	The Booker Longlist	Various	We discussed the books that had been longlisted for the Booker Prize
July	The Chosen	Elizabeth Lowry	We discussed Elizabeth Lowry's book about Hardy’s pained reflections on the choices he has made and must make.
June	The End Of Us	Olivia Kiernan	Olivia Kiernan joined us in the shop to talk to us about her book that was provided to us on early release.
May	The Young Accomplice	Benjamin Wood	Siblings have just been released from borstal to start a new life as apprentices at Leventree, an architecture practice with a difference.
April	A Complicated Matter	Anne Youngson	Anne came to talk to us and answer questions about her new book. A story of love class and belonging is also a profound meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.
March	These Streets	Luan Goldie	A powerful and essential story about family, community and living in Britain today, told with compassion and heart by Luan Goldie.
February	The Leviathan	Rosie Andrews	We debated Rosie Andrews' gorgeous debut, Leviathan, which mixes historical fiction with elements of horror and magical realism.
January	A Killing In November	Simon Mason	Simon was able to join us at the Wallingford Tearoom to discuss the his new Oxford based DI Wilkins series, which starts with the brilliant A Killing in November.