South Manchester Book Group

We're a friendly and open South Manchester pub-based reading group, and we share a love of books and discussing them with other people. We meet every fortnight, but you don't have to come to them all. It's dead simple; choose a book you like the sound of, read it (or even part of it) beforehand and turn up with a few ideas and money for beer / wine / flirtinis. It's very informal, and we're quite a friendly bunch. We meet at a pub in Didsbury around 8.30 pm, and can usually be found on the table with the books and flirtinis.

We've become rather popular recently so unfortunately aren't accepting new members just at the moment. But please drop us a line on the Contact Us form and we'll add you to our mailing list.

Our reading list, past and present, appears below. Our upcoming schedule of what we’re reading next is here.

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov

That Cafe - Christmas Meal

Details of the restaurant can be found here.

The address is 1031 Stockport Road (the A6), Levenshulme. It's located at the far end of Levenshulme as you drive from Manchester towards Stockport; on the left hand side of the road, adjacent to a pedestrian crossing.

Andrew Motion - Poems

Due to the length of A Fine Balance, the schedule has been altered to defer it to after the Christmas and New Year break.

Instead therefore, this week we will be discussing two poems by Andrew Motion.

The first, Anne Frank Huis, is available to read on line here.

The second, Spring Wedding is available to read at the foot of this page.