The Fireside Book Group

The ‘fireside’ bookgroup was originally started as a way of helping us cope with the dim winter months by gathering around the fire in the little Puhoi Library to discuss a book.

On both counts it has rather exceeded its mandate – it now runs all year round (invalidating the ‘fireside’ epithet) and the conversation rarely stays on the book concerned. Digressing into history, psychology, politics,  village events and colourful local gossip has become something of a speciality. There’s always a warm welcome, some delicious nibbles and a few bottles of wine bought along to lubricate the intellects.

So come along and join us – not having read the book is certainly not a barrier to entry (indeed I’m pretty sure some members haven’t read the proscribed one yet;-)

We meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm (as so many groups seem to have snatched the first and last Tuesdays). Just come along and see or use the contact form below for more information.

Month	Proposer	Title	Author
Jan 22	Derek	A Gentleman in Moscow	Amor Towles
Feb 22	Mike	The Garden of Evening Mists	Tan Twan Eng
Mar 22	Judith	The Bone People	Keri Hulme
Apr 22	Val	From There to Here (with an awful lot in between)	Pat Backley
May 22	Bryan	The Power of the Dog	Thomas Savage
Jun 22	Mike B	The Daughter of Time	Josephine Tey
Jul 22	Kate	The lost pianos of Siberia	Sophy Roberts
Aug 22	Chris	Klara and the Sun	Kazuo Ishiguro
Sep 22	Steve	Concordia	Stella Suberman
Oct 22	Diane
Nov 22	Jackie	Americanah	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dec 22	Jenny	The Fish	Lloyd Jones

See a more or less accurate list of books we’ve read in previous years…