South Manchester Book Group

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.

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor

If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor

The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

Lorelei's Secret - Carolyn Parkhurst

Lorelei's Secret - Carolyn Parkhurst

Skellig - David Almond

Skellig - David Almond

Just for a change we've selected a children's novel for this week.

Man and Boy - Tony Parsons

Man and Boy - Tony Parsons

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

In a late change, to the previous late change we're now back to My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (apparently early responses to the ALan Paton book weren't promising!).

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

Poems

A slight change this week; we'll be studying poems rather than a book.

The main poem for discussion is High Flight, by John Gillespie McGee (a copy can be found here). In addition please bring a short poem of your choice for the group to read.

Manchester England – Dave Haslam

Manchester England – Dave Haslam

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Atonement – Ian McEwan

The Signalman – Charles Dickens

The Signalman – Charles Dickens

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