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Mr B's Delightful Book Clubs - Free! All welcome

Email: books@mrbsemporium.com or call 01225 331155 to join

We have two book groups at Mr B's a Marvellous Monday group (at 6.45pm) and a Tremendous Tuesday group (at 7pm)

 

FAQ

When? Each group meets around every 5-6 weeks. You can come along to either group or to both!

Where?  Mr B's of course - over a glass of wine and nibbles

Choosing the books One person nominated at the end of each session to come up with a shortlist of books for the next session. All members then vote on which book to read. We focus on fiction, but poetry and non-fiction can be thrown into the choices too!

 

Money off! - Book group members get 10% off any book-group book

 

Previous Book Group Choices - Click here

Marvellous Monday Book Group

Tremendous Tuesday Book Group

Next meeting

Monday 12th April

6.45pm

Next meeting

Tuesday 23rd March

7pm

Next book

"Bomber" by Len Deighton

Next book

"Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel

 

 

"Ask the Author"

To enhance the Mr B's Delightful Book Group experience we will put any questions you have about a book to the author (pulse permitting) after the book group meeting and post the answers on our funky new fully interactive

Mr B's Blog of Bloggy Delights

 

"Ask the Author" sessions with Marie Phillips, James Long, Patrick Gale, A.L.Kennedy and Bethan Roberts are all online now and visible by

Clicking here to go to the Blog of Bloggy Delights. Feel free to comment and continue the discussions

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Previous Book Group Choices

 

52) "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins

51) "The Shiralee" by D'Arcy Niland

50) "The Vagrants" by Yiyun Li

49) "A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire" by Charles Dickens et al.

48)"Santaland Diaries" by David Sedaris

47) "Samarkand" by Amin Maalouf

46) "Stasiland" by Anna Funder

45) "The Lonely Hearts Club" by Raul Nunez

44) The Outsider by Albert Camus

43) "Barry Lyndon" by William Thackeray

42) "The Other" by David Guterson

41) "The House of Spirits" by Isabel Allende

40) "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" by Richard Yates

39) "Embers" by Sandor Marai

38) "Therese" by Francois Mauriac

37) "Exemplary Stories" by Miguel de Cervantes

36) "Fire in the Blood" by Irene Nemirovsky

35) "Gate of Angels" by Penelope Fitzgerald

34) "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" by ZZ Packer

33) "Gods Behaving Badly" by Marie Phillips

32) "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" by Giorgio Bassani

31) "The Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow

30) "The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa

29) "The Magic Flute" by Jamie Spence

28) "Zoology" by Ben Dolnick

27) "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

26) "Ferney" by James Long

25) "Soul Mountain" by Gao Xingjian

24) "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

23) "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid

22) "The Pools" by Bethan Roberts

21) "Any Human Heart" by William Boyd

20) "Pincher Martin" by William Golding

19) "The Magic Toyshop" by Angela Carter

18) "A Golden Age" by Tahmima Anam

17) "Either Side of Winter" by Benjamin Markovitz

16) "The Book of Chameleons" by Jose Eduardo Agualusa

15) "Day" by A.L.Kennedy

14) "Notes from an Exhibition" by Patrick Gale

13) "What Was Lost" by Catherine O'Flynn

12) "The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing

11) "Regeneration" by Pat Barker

10) "The Howling Miller" by Arto Paasalinna

9) "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

8) "Crome Yellow" by Aldous Huxley

7) "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

6) "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" by John Boyne

5) "So Long, See You Tomorrow" by William Maxwell

4) "Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami

3) "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" by Jon McGregor

2) "The Night Listener" by Armistead Maupin

1) "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

 

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