Book Club Book of the Month – August

Go set a Watchman by Harper Lee   Described as the “publishing event of the decade” Go set a Watchman was written before the American Classic, To Kill A Mockingbird – which, until now, was Harper Lee’s only published novel. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home Read more

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Book Club Book of the Month – April

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie’s Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the ‘netsuke’, they unlocked a story far larger Read more

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Book Club Book of the Month – March

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë   “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” From its haunting first line to its famous closer, “Reader, I married him”, Charlotte Brontë takes her audience by the throat with a fierce narrative of great immediacy. Jane Eyre’s voice on the page Read more

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