• classes & workshops

Share your thoughts on contemporary fiction with other readers in a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere.

This season our Book Club will be reading

Thur 15 June
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
450 pages

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

Thur 13 July
The power and the glory by Graham Greene
220 pages

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

Thur 10 Aug
The God of small things by Arundhati Roy
355 pages

This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt).

Suitable for 18+ years.

Spaces are limited, early booking is advised to avoid disappointment.

Summer
15 Jun, 13 Jul, 10 Aug

7.30pm – 9.30pm
£5 per session (includes a glass of wine or soft drink from the bar)