| Status: | Active, not currently accepting new members |
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| When: | Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:30 Third Thursday of the Month |
| Venue: | The Place - Great Yarmouth Library |
If you have a love of reading and live in Great Yarmouth, then this is the group for you.
We read a wide variety of books ranging from biographies, classics, travelogues and thrillers to name but a few.
Book titles are chosen well in advance so you have plenty of time to source and read them before taking part in a lively discussion.
Unfortunately our group is full at the moment but as soon as well have a place available we will put a notice on the Members page.
Reading List - 2025-26
| Date | Title | Author | Category |
| 18 September | The Mill on the Floss | George Elliot | Classic |
| 16 October | Book of Doors | Gareth Brown | Fantasy |
| 20 November | The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair | Joel Dicker | Translation |
| 18 December | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Childrens Classic |
| 15 January | A Change of Climate | Hilary Mantel | Local |
| 19 February | Limitless | Tim Peake | Autobiography |
| 19 March | The Elephants of Norwich | Edward Marston | Historical |
| 16 April | The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window And Disappeared | Jonas Jonasson | Foreign |
| 21 May | Death Under Sail | C P Snow | Pot Luck |
| 18 June | Last Bus to Woodstock | Colin Dexter | Crime |
| 17 July | TBA | New Author Debut Novel |
Reading List - 2024-25
| Date | Title | Author | Category |
| Thursday 19 September '24 | The Kindness of Strangers | Kate Adie | Biography |
| Thursday 17 October '24 | Old Filth | Jane Gardam | Pot Luck |
| Thursday 21 November '24 | The Shape of Water | Andrea Camilleri | Translation |
| Thursday 19 December '24 | Queenie of Norwich | L K Wilde | Local |
| Thursday 16 January '25 | The Figurine | Victoria Hislop | Set in a foreign country |
| Thursday 20 February '25 | Around the World in 80 Trains | Monisha Rajesh | Travel |
| Thursday 20 March '25 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper FForde | Fantasy |
| Thursday 17 April '25 | Chance | Joseph Conrad | Classic |
| Thursday 15 May '25 | The Last Dance | Mark Billingham | Crime |
| Thursday 19 June '25 | Remember Remember | Elle Machray | New Author |
| Thursday 17 July '25 | Adolf Hitler my part in his Downfall | Spike Milligan | Historical |
Group Leaders Report
This is our 8th year as a group and we were delighted to welcome 3 new members to our little gang of bookworms. We really are now bursting at the seams but it all adds to our enjoyment to listen to the different opinions on the books and see things from another perspective. I must admit it is always surprising to discover that a book you thoroughly enjoyed was thought to be a very dismal offering by someone else.
This year we have travelled from 1900s Brooklyn and an immigrant population with its joys and sorrows through Soviet Russia in the 80s and the murky world of the KGB and MI6 onwards to Jack the Rippers London in 1880s and the lives of his victims and met the Hobbits in Middle earth at the start of their quest. We have learnt something of a youthful Stephen Fry met Simon Serrailler as he fights crime and cheered on young Molly Gray our neuro divergent heroine in her search for truth at the hotel which employs her.
At the moment we are in North Carolina with Kya Where the Crawdads Sings. We shall be discussing that in Thursday’s book group so the jury’s out on that one at the moment. I can tell you that A tree grows in Brooklyn has a been our favourite so far. Not read it? I urge you to get a copy you won’t be disappointed.
That’s all for this year but I look forward to another year of laughter and discussion with the group, always a morning I anticipate with enthusiasm.
Lynda Oldfield