The Book Club has been lying low since the pandemic hit, but it is time to rise from the ashes, phoenix-style. If you wish to join the Book Club, please drop a line in the comments section below. The dates of the Book Club meetings are listed in Upcoming Events Read more
Happy New Year! This is the first of a monthly series in which I’ll be reviewing the best of what I’ve read recently, and what to look forward to in forthcoming releases. To kick things off, here are my favourite reads of 2020. If you made a resolution to read Read more
Burton Book Club: The Lost Years For some mysterious reason, Bookmark went to ground for the year before the pandemic hit – if she knew something the rest of the world didn’t, she’s not letting on. In an attempt to identify all books of the month, we list those read and Read more
Our House by Louise Candlish On a bright morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought on Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it’s your house. And you didn’t sell it. ‘If 2018 brings a better book than Our House I Read more
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the post-war, post-siege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Read more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel Read more
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success and the good life and Read more
Could anyone take the Harry Potter series of books off my hands? Secondhand, good condition. Need the space. Not seeking payment, but a donation to the BCA would be welcome. Philosopher’s Stone Chamber of Secrets Prisoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Order of the Phoenix Half-Blood Prince Deathly Hallows plus, Read more
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley An eerie, suspenseful debut novel – hailed as ‘an amazing piece of fiction’ by Stephen King When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Read more
Tristan Darby has experience spanning over 20 years in the catering, hospitality and wine trade – working in the kitchen, front of house, bar, retail and education – interspersed with time touring as a professional actor and singer. Tristan is drinks columnist for The Bath Magazine and the Bristol Read more