The book club meets one evening or afternoon per month. The reading list contains a mix of fiction and non-fiction, contemporary and classic, and is compiled at the end of each social year using members’ suggestions. Discussion is held in English, but the books can be read in any language. The reading lists are posted below. New members are always welcome!
Book Club: June
For our last meeting of this social year we are asking you to bring along a poem (or part of one if it is very long!) to share with the
Book Club: May
Join us to discuss our last book of the year before June’s poetry meeting. Claire Keegan’s novella “Foster” tells the story of a young girl sent to live with foster
Book Club April
The Sunday Times called her “Britain’s Patricia Highsmith and the grandmother of psycho-domestic noir”. After enjoying great popularity in the 1950s and 60s, for many years Celia Fremlin was not
Book Club March
Described as “Succession with a much-needed dose of feminism”, Lioness is the fourth novel by Women’s prize, long-listed author, Emily Perkins. We will meet to discuss this contemporary New Zealand
Book club February
Stella Gibbons wrote over 20 novels but Cold Comfort Farm is by far her best known. Come and join us to discuss the feisty Flora Poste and the peculiar Starkadder
Book Club January
Happy New Year! If your new year’s resolutions included one to “read more books” you have come to the right place! If you haven’t tried out Book Club yet, you
Reading list
2023-2024 Reading List
Many thanks to everyone for their excellent suggestions. Here is the full reading list. Only the May mystery remains a mystery. 😉 Happy reading! September: Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and
2022-2023 Reading List
At last, the news you have all been waiting for – our reading list for the upcoming social year! September – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale AND/OR its sequel The
May Mysteries
Dear readers For our May Mystery evening, we will be reading Tom Benjamin’s Requiem in La Rossa, a Bologna-based mystery written by the husband of IWF member Lea Zecchino! This