Thursday Book Club meets again this week, usual venue 19:30 to discuss the current book ‘After the Funeral’ by Agatha Christie.  Our next book is Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The Library have only 10 copies in their Reading Group sets so if any members have  their own copy or can borrow  one that would be helpful. There are at present 15 members in this group which means we cannot accept more members at present.

The Good news is that the Friday group will will be starting up again soon. Meeting on Friday mornings at 10:30. There is room here for more members. Please call Anne Carr if you are interested.

David Kearney

‘Canary Across the Mersey’  is a true story which some members may remember. It’s about a young boy at school in Maghull who one day finds a canary and gives it a home. Written by Dr Michael Boyle, son of Lill Boyle, our welfare secretary it is beautifully illustrated.  There is now a delightful video about the book which you can see here.

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Our next meeting is 9th November

Book: The Light Between Oceans by M J Stedman

You can read more about this book which is the  author’s first novel and now a major film, if you click on this link link.

If you like reading and would like to join a reading group, please contact David

on 526 6001 or enquire at the Book Table at the Tuesday Coffee Morning.

THURSDAY BOOK CLUB

(2nd Thursday monthly)

NEXT MEETING 9TH MARCH 7:30PM

THE MANGO ORCHARD BY ROBIN BAYLEY

As a child, Robin Bayley would listen, enthralled, to tales of his great-grandfather, who travelled to Mexico in 1898 to take charge of a cotton mill….Read more

Friday Book Club meets next 27th January 10:30

to discuss The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies

Thursday Book Club meets next on Thursday evening 9th February

to talk about The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

If you would like to join one of the book clubs call David or Anne – see this link

Books we are reading:

14 April  The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

22 April: And The Mountains Echoed by  Khaled Hosseini

12 May   Sunshine on Scotland Street by A. McCall Smith

27 May:  The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst.

‘Stoner‘ by John Williams

The novel is set in and around the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia and covers the period from 1910 when the protagonist, Stoner, first enters university, until his death in 1956.

Stoner is an only child in a lonely household, where he and his parents work from dawn to dusk eking out a meagre living from the barren, unrelenting land.  On finishing high school, his surprisingly forward-looking parents enrol him into the University of Missouri to study agriculture.  English literature is a required element of the course and Stoner has a ‘Damascus’ moment, realising that this is where his future lies. Continue reading →

Thursday 10th of September at 19.30
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Thursday 8th October at 19:30
Stoner by John Williams

Friday 25th September at 10.30 am
Discussion on the members’ Summer reading.
Friday 23rd October at 10.30 am
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina