Past Events › Book Club at BUC

In August we are meeting at Acustico Cafe, 32 Union St. Brunswick.  If you have ever read a book you qualify!  So come along and have a book-related chat and coffee.  Lunch is an optional extra.

We have selected The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan for our August read which “tells the story of Anna, an  architect working in Sydney, but born and raised in Tasmania. As Anna approaches her sixtieth year, her mother begins to fail, and Flanagan plays out this family drama against a 21st-Century [...]

This month we will explore Sri Lankan born, Australian author Sulari Gentill’s opus including her award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries.  Rowland, the youngest of the respectable and influential Sinclair family, has a talent for scandal. His family consider him the blacksheep, because he is an artist and associates with the ‘riff raff’ of society – [...]

Read the highly acclaimed novel Terra Nullius (2017) by First Nations author Claire Coleman and watch as many episodes as you can of the SBS series The Australian Wars which explores the bloody battles fought on Australian soil and the war that established the Australian nation. This book and TV series will form the [...]

We are meeting at Acustico Cafe.  If you have ever read a book you qualify!  So come along and have a book-related chat and coffee.  Lunch is an optional extra.  Enjoy and regards, Claire Foley 0418 988 972 or foleyclairep@icloud.com

We will meet in person (with a zoom option if you’d prefer) to celebrate our year of great discussions.  We’ll have a sip of champagne and a nibble together as we each offer a review of a recent favourite book and share a children’s story with the group. - facilitated by Jeanette Acland [...]

We meet at Acustico Cafe.  If you have ever read a book you qualify!  So come along and have a book-related chat and coffee.  Lunch is an optional extra.  Enjoy and regards, Claire Foley 0418 988 972 or foleyclairep@icloud.com

This landmark new novel from award-winning Irish author Claire Keegan is set in a small Irish town in 1985. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a father of five young daughters, delivers coal for heating throughout the town. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes [...]

We meet at Acustico Cafe.  If you have ever read a book you qualify!  So come along and have a book-related chat and coffee.  Lunch is an optional extra.  Enjoy and regards, Claire Foley 0418 988 972 or foleyclairep@icloud.com

The Book Club meets in the Youth Hall and is facilitated by Jeanette Acland. Details coming soon about this month's book. If you would like more information about the Evening Book Club, email bucpost@gmail.com marked attention Christine.