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, present, and future, appears here and a short version of what we’re reading next is here.

Thursday, 18 February 2010

South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

Thursday, 4 February 2010

I Didn't Get Where I am Today - David Nobbs

Thursday, 21 January 2010

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Desperate Romantics, The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites - Franny Moyle

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul - Douglas Adams

Thursday, 29 October 2009

The Hummingbirds Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Saving Agnes - Rachel Cusk

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Thursday, 3 September 2009

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Thursday, 20 August 2009

Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov

Thursday, 6 August 2009

Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid - Simon Armitage

Thursday, 23 July 2009

White Tiger - Aravid Adiga

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout

Please note change in date for this book.

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

This book has been chosen as part of Refugee Week (15th - 21st June) and we will be joined by a representative from the Red Cross.