Second Wednesday of the Month Book Club – A daytime meeting Our book club currently meets at Café Acustico, 32 Union St Brunswick. We meet at 11am until around 12.15 to 12.30.  Many of us stay on for lunch. We have a casual approach where everyone comes with a book or story or magazine [...]

The Book Club meets in the Youth Hall and is facilitated by Jeanette Acland. In April we will discuss The Salt Path by Raynor Winn. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and [...]

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 focus for discussion in May will be the 2019 Booker Prize winner, Girl, Woman, Other: a novel by Bernardine Evaristo. Teeming with energy, humour and heart, this is a love song to black Britain told by twelve vastly different, unforgettable characters. Each is looking for something – a shared past, an [...]

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

We are returning to a classic this month, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have “helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War”. The book charts [...]

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

In the depths of a dreary winter, we decided to read something to lift our spirits in July, Ciao Bella! Six take Italy by Kate Langbroek. Ciao Bella!  is about having a dream and living it. Kate shares the sublime joys and utter chaos of adapting to a new life in Bologna, what you [...]

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

J.K. Rowling, whom we all know as the creator of Harry Potter, has also made a name for herself in the crime genre for her ongoing detective series under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith. The series chronicles the cases of the fictional British private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. Six novels in [...]