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.

Year	Month	Proposer	Title	Author
2023	January	Bryan	Max Havelaar	Multatuli
2023	February	Diane	The Sea	John Banville
2023	March	Jackie	The Diamond Eye	Kate Quinn
2023	April	Mike B	The Outsider	Fredrick Forsyth
2023	May	Derek	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
2023	June	Jenny	Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver
2023	July	Mike S	Birnam Wood	Eleanor Catton
2023	August	Chris	The Nickel Boys	Colston Whitehead
2023	September	Steve
2023	October	Kathryn	Still Life	Sarah Winman
2023	November	Joe	Borges and Me	Jay Parini
2023	December	Kate	Poor People With Money	Dominic Hoey

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