Book Club
The Nailsworth book club meets at the Village Inn at 8pm on the first Monday of every month.
Anyone is welcome to come along and join the discussion, you just need to have read the current book of the month, details of which are below.
All book-club books can be purchased at The Yellow Lighted Bookshop, 17 Fountain Street, Nailsworth, either in person or by calling 01453 832555.
If you mention the Village Inn Book Club, you may get 10% off, while stocks last!
Book Club Books
Monday March 5th
Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens
Monday February 6th
Freedom
By Jonathan Franzen
Monday January 9th 2012
Galileo’s Daughter
By Dava Sobel
Monday 5th December 2011
‘The People’s Act of Love ‘
By James Meek
Monday 7th November 2011
‘A Time of gifts’
By Patrick Leigh Fermor
Monday 3rd October 2011
‘Mr Pye’
By Mervyn Peake
Monday 5th September 2011
‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’
By – by William Maxwell
Please call Marilyn on 01453-832974 for details about the venue.
Monday 1st August 2011
‘Nocturnes’
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Monday 5th July 2011
‘The Finkler Question’
By Howard Jacobson
Monday 6th June 2011
‘Dark Mischief’
By Evelyn Waugh
Monday 9th May 2011
‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’
by Edward de Waal
Monday 4th April 2011
‘Water for Elephants’
by Sara Gruen
Monday 7th March 2011
‘Labyrinths’
by Jorge Luis Borges
Monday 7th February 2011
‘Pompeii’
by Robert Harris
Monday 10th January 2011
‘The Children’s Book’
by A S Byatt
This month, instead of meeting at the Village Inn, the Book Club will be having a special communal meal together. Please call Marilyn on 01453-832974 for details about the venue.
Monday December 6th 2010
‘Family Album’
by Penelope Lively
Monday November 1st 2010
‘Shadow of the Wind’
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Monday October 4th 2010
‘The Lacuna’
by Barbara Kingsolver
Monday September 6th 2010
‘Sea of Poppies’
by Amitash Ghosh
Monday August 2nd
Contributory evening: Bring along your current reading and discuss it with the book club.
Monday 5th July 2010
‘Broolkyn’
by Colm Tóibin
Monday 7th June 2010
‘Catcher in the Rye’
by J. D. Salinger
Monday 3rd May 2010
‘Indigo’
by Marina Warner
April 2010
Instead of reading a book this April, the Book Club will be going on a theatre trip to the Tobacco Theatre in Bristol to see The Tempest, on March 29th.
Monday 1st March 2010
‘The Crimson Rooms’
by Katherine McMahon
Monday 1st February 2010
‘The Other Hand’
by Chris Cleave
Monday 4th January 2010
‘Washington Square’
by Henry James
Monday 7th December 2009
‘Dance, dance, dance’
by Haruki Murakami
Monday 2nd November 2009
‘Deaf Sentence’
by David Lodge
Monday 5th October 2009
‘The Siege’
by Helen Dunmore
Monday 7th September 2009
‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’
by Mohsin Hamid
Monday 3rd August 2009
‘The Sea, the Sea’
By Iris Murdoch
Monday 6th July
‘Rebecca’
By Daphne Du Maurier
Monday 1st June
This month is a contributions evening, where members are invited to bring a book and share a paragraph, telling us why you’ve chosen it.
Monday 4th May 2009
‘Midnight’s Children’
By Salman Rushdie
Monday 6th April 2009
‘His Illegal Self’
By Peter Corey
Monday 2nd March 2009
‘Minaret’
By Leila Aboulela
Monday 2nd February 2009
‘The Audacity of Hope’
By Barack Obama
Monday 5th January 2009
‘All The Pretty Horses’
By Cormack McCarthy
Monday 1st December 2008
‘Notes from an Exhibition’
By Patrick Gale
Monday 3rd November 2008
‘American Pastoral’
By Philip Roth
