So what do we do at Book Group? We talk about the book we have assigned ourselves, what we have liked and disliked, what we haven't understood, why we enjoyed the style or the story, where we found incongruities and irritations, and whether we would read anything else by that author. What we don't do is run through a list of prepared questions such as are sometimes found in the back of novels ‘for book groups to discuss’. The book almost always makes someone think of something in their own lives, which triggers an altogether different conversation but with the rule that 'What gets said in Book Group stays in Book Group'.

We then break for tea and biscuits and come back together to hear something interesting someone has brought along. It can be a poem or a newspaper article - anything that has fired someone’s imagination. We then discuss what we might like to read next. Anyone can have an idea. We try to plan three months in advance to allow books to come into the library or be purchased, often from second-hand bookshops, either real or online shops such as World of Books.

Some books that we have read include -

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Sleeping Giant

Linda Grant - The Dark Circle

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time

Tracy Chevalier - Remarkable Creatures

If you are interested in knowing more please contact Jane Kayley-Burgess by clicking this link - Book Group Coordinator , or see the Gazette for the Group coordinator's phone number