We’ve just read “A Gentleman In Moscow” by Amor Towles in our book group and had our regular meet up last week. I can’t say everyone in our group loved it (those that didn’t, failed to finish it, which was […]
I have been in the same book group for over twenty years now (minus a few years when we moved away for a bit) and I still love it and of course all the girls in it. Book groups mean […]
Our latest book group book was “H Is For Hawk” by Helen MacDonald. We were interestingly mixed in our opinions, but overall she won over nearly all the hearts and minds in the group, despite most of us not thinking […]
We’ve just read “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” as our first book of 2015 and it’s managed to leap to the very top of our favourite choice. We (nearly) all loved it – not only for the subject matter, […]
We had one of those more unusual book groups this time around whereby all of us there loved the book we had just read on some level or other. Not all for the same reasons, but it is rare to […]
We had a lovely evening last night out for our Christmas Book Group. We chose a very lively pub in Putney – in fact it’s one I used to go to years ago when I worked for EMI to see […]
We had our book group meet up last night to discuss “Cry, The Beloved Country” by Alan Paton, first published in 1948 and I now understand why it stands out as the single most important novel in 20th Century South […]
Last night we had our book group meeting in the fabulous Putney Station (one of the Brinkley’s restaurants – very cool and accommodating they were too) and we were lucky enough to have the author of the book we were […]
As I mentioned, one of the girls in our book group has just released her first novel. It’s doing really well. I think it sounds like the perfect stocking filler present for girlfriends and mother’s….. She’s had some excellent reviews […]
My friend’s son thinks he is having a mid-life crisis. “Why do you think that?’ she asked, “you’re only 8, I think it is unlikely”. “Well, apparently if you are having a mid-life crisis you dye your hair and wear […]
