A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess

Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence — he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, and the mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique, he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day ...

Baffled by our Tone's cant ? Confused by his argot ? Then why not consult our NADSAT — A Malenky Guide for Oomny Droogs ?

This week's book is A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.

King Solomon's Mines — H Rider Haggard

This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is the strange history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon. In the course of a long life of close shaves, I never had such shaves as those which I have recently experienced.

— Allan Quatermain, of Durban, Natal, Gentleman

This week's book is King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.

Yellow Face — R F Kuang

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault ...

This week's book is Yellow Face by R F Kuang and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.