May’s meeting finds us discussing The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung, a novel in translation set in China.  It’s a book that does not match the blurb which is a pity as it did promise much. It seems to go nowhere and yet it could have gone down the sci-fi genre and the story developed… Read more

Miss Carter’s War by Sheila Hancock (Historical fiction) Marguerite, our Miss Carter, is half French and half English, her parents are dead, she worked enemy lines in World War II and the novel focuses on her post war life and the changes in society. Hancock is clearly left wing in her politics and the book… Read more

Our March meeting was a sharing of books based on a variety of themes.  Now on to other books we read during February... Read more

Our book under discussion was 'Shrines of Gaiety' by Kate Atkinson which was kindly provided by Leigh Library Services.  We have our first ‘marmite’ book of the year! A number of the group could not get into the book and so didn’t finish it. There were too many characters making it difficult to keep up with the… Read more