Our Book Club usually meet on a Monday in the Dunelm Cafe at 10.30am to discuss the chosen book.

We meet next on 9th December. The chosen book is Remembering Babylon by David Malouf.  Email for details if you would like to join us.

Everyone is welcome to this informal club which has been running for over 8 years with five regular members. Books are mainly new, but we also have discussed some classics. We discuss what we thought of the chosen book and this often leads on to other topics. We are a mixed group of people, some from the Church, some from the local community who all enjoy reading and discussion.

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The last book we read was:

Murder in Belgravia by Lynn Brittney

This is an interesting read; well researched. It’s 1915 and in the Metropolitan Policewomen are rare. A forward-thinking high-ranking officer spots the need for the ‘fairer sex’ to be more involved especially when victims of domestic violence will not speak to male officers. When the husband of a titled lady is found dead in suspicious circumstances a police officer invalided from WW1 is chosen to lead a small experimental team to investigate. His team consists of a femail doctor, a nurse with a titled background, a know to be discrete sargeant and a police constable of immense height and weight just out of the Army with an injured hand. They work together to solve the case.

We liked the characters and the way the story unfolds. It does lead into some unsavoury establishments but that is all part of it. We did learn a think or two about the seedier side of life of the times!