There are currently two active Book Groups. They both meet in the Town Hall, either in the Committee Room or the Council Chamber and both start at 10.30am.

The 1st Group meets on the second Monday of each month and the 2nd Group meets on the third Monday of the month. We read and discuss mainly 20th Century fiction chosen by the Group Leader in consultation with the members and books we have recently read include, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, The Beggar and the Hare by Thomas Kyro, Painting Time by Maylie de Kerangal and the Island of Missing Trees by Eli Shafak.

If you wish to join any of these groups you need first to contact Kaye McArthur, the group Co-ordinator via the email link at the top of this page. All groups are currently full, but you can join a waiting list.

Titles of books for discussion in 2026 and dates of meetings are as follows:

Monday 13th July (Grp1) and 20th July (Grp2) - The Untouchable by John Banville

Monday 10th August (Grp1) and 17th August (Grp2) -Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

Monday 14th September (Grp1) and 21st September (Grp2)-The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Monday 12th October (Grp1) and 19th October (Grp2)-The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

Monday 9th November (Grp1) and 16th November (Grp2)- The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene

Monday 7th December (Grp1) and 14th December (Grp2)-Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell.

2027

January.  -Small Island by Andrea Levy

February.  -Country Girl by Edna OBrien

March.  -Seeing by Jose Saramango 

April. -Silverview by John Le Carre

May.  -Crabwalk by Gunter Grass

June. -The Painter's Daughters

July.  -The Things we Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

Contact: For further information please click here to contact Kaye McArthur