September Meeting – The Humans by Matt Haig

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
OR IS THERE?

After an ‘incident’ one wet Friday night where Professor Andrew Martin is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, he is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst a crazy alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he’s a dog.

What could possibly make someone change their mind about the human race. . . ?
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We’re meeting at our new venue 06 St Chad’s Place – please note that there is a £10 minimum card spend so bring some pennies for drinks!

As always, everyone is welcome.

August Book Club – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

We’re meeting on 3rd August at a new venue – 06 St Chad’s Place to discuss this latest Murakami book. Please do come along and let us know what you think, or just join us for a good chat!

Synopsis below:

This is a mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and Kurono, ‘black field’. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn’t want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.

July Book Club – Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

July’s book will be ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ by Susanna Clarke, and currently the big Sunday night drama on BBC.

Synopsis below!

April Book Club Read – The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer

Hi all!

April’s book will be ‘The Shock of the Fall’ by Nathan Filer. We’re also going to be meeting on Monday 13th April because of the bank holiday.

Synposis below!

March Book Club Read – “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found” by Cheryl Strayed

So we’re cashing in on the latest Oscar run, and reading “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed. For more information about the book and when we’re next meeting, read on below!

New website & some photos

It seems like 2015 might  be a good time to update our website and add a few photos from the odd night out in 2014! Keep an eye out for a couple of other changes coming over the next few weeks….

February Book Club Read – Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

Happy 2015 everyone! We’re starting the new year with Nick Hornby’s latest novel, Funny Girl. Please read on for the synopsis……

January Book Club Read – Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Over the Christmas period, we thought we’d go a bit lighthearted – Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. Synopsis below the cut!

December Book Club Read – ‘Elizabeth is Missing’ by Emma Healey

After we all gagged our way through the last read, we’ve gone for the impressively review debut novel by Emma Healey for next month’s meeting.

In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also a heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences.

November Book Club Read – ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies’ by Seth Grahame-Smith

So this month, we’ve gone for a (less traditional) Halloween theme!

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”