BOOKWORMS
Our groups meet on the first Thursday and the first Friday of each month. Our Friday group would welcome new members so if anyone is interested, please speak to Jenny or one of the Committee members at the monthly meeting.
In April our THURSDAY group had a lovely lunch to celebrate Bertha's 90th birthday and while waiting for lunch to arrive, we briefly talked about some of the books we've read. These were:
A more Perfect Union by Tammye Huf: A riveting love story across the challenges of race and poverty’. Based on the true story of the author's great-great-grandparents, and brilliantly reimagined, this is an epic tale of love and courage, desperation and determination. ‘
The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G.Maclean: A gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden.
Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Surviving, he becomes a bookseller in Inverness. He notices a stranger in the shop searching for a book and next morning the stranger is found with his throat cut and a sword with a white cockade on its hilt, the emblem of the Jacobites.
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West: One of Vita Sackville-West’s later novels and is a critique of Edwardian aristocratic society and of her own experiences in childhood.
Butter – Asako Yuzuki: The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Reader would like someone to tell her what this book is about!
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergheze (the author of the excellent “Cutting for Stone” which was recommended by Katharine Brown to Thursday book group, and who died recently). Tells the story of three generations of the Malayali family living in southwest India, with a critique of the British Imperial presence in India. Strangely, one person in each generation dies by drowning. “A hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding”