Burton Book Club – group read for June 2024

Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart Summary A searing insider’s account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics ‘The most exceptional political memoir I’ve ever read’ ALAN JOHNSON‘An instant classic’ MARINA HYDE‘At last a politician who can Read more

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The Lit List – Long, Hot Summer

Top 10: classic summer novels This month’s list features novels in which summer drives the plot. These are books of sultry summers where time has a hazy, dream-like quality. Frequently about love, sometimes unrequited, and loss of innocence. Classic summer novels often include a sense of transience and nostalgia. Bubbling Read more

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The Lit List – a Literary Flora

Top 10: books celebrating plants and Spring May is the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of Spring and flowers. Accordingly, this month we dig deep into all things botanical with the best of fiction and non-fiction about gardening, plants, nature and plant-hunters. Bubbling under

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Burton Book Club – group read for March 2024

The Timetraveller’s Wife (2023) by Audrey Niffenegger Summary Clare and Henry met when Clare was just six and Henry thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty.  Impossible but true. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love. Henry is a librarian who suffers Read more

By Amanda Read, ago