The Covington Book Group Summer Party will be held on the evening of Saturday 4th August. As last year Shirley has very kindly offered to host us. We will discuss plans for the food nearer the time but in essence the Book Group funds will pay for the main event in terms of food and […]
The next book group meeting will be Monday June 4th in the village hall. When we will discuss the books we have been reading in June. For June the Covington Book Group members have had a choice of two books for their reading pleasure. Either Barkskins by Annie Proulx or Black Water Lilies by Michel […]
Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund. Only a few of the group had read this book, some had started but not finished due to the harrowing nature of the subject matter. This who did read it in general did not enjoy the book, simply due to the subject matter and the graphic descriptions of horrific […]
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave: Overall the group enjoyed the book and felt it was a well written and absorbing story, with well portrayed characters and relationships. In particular the heroine’s mother was a character that received praise for being very well drawn. It was interesting to note that the book was based […]
The next Book Group meeting will be June 4th in the village hall when we will discuss the books we have been reading in May. In May the Covington Book Group have had a choice of two books for their reading pleasure. Either Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund or A Place Called Winter by […]
The Covington Book Group Summer Party will be held on the evening of Saturday 4th August. As last year Shirley has very kindly offered to host us. We will discuss plans for the food nearer the time but in essence the Book Group funds will pay for the main event in terms of food and […]
Shirley recommended a book to the group. Munich by Robert Harris is a spy novel set amid the politicking of Chamberlain’s last ditch negotiations with Hitler.
The book group met on Monday 9th April that members had read in March. It is fair to say that both books divided the group and some members found the books a little too ‘miserable’ to be truly enjoyable reads. However in contrast a number of the group thought that the books were excellent. His […]
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave: Overall the group enjoyed the book and felt it was a well written and absorbing story, with well portrayed characters and relationships. In particular the heroine’s mother was a character that received praise for being very well drawn. It was interesting to note that the book was based […]
There are two forthcoming ‘meet the author’ events at St Ives Library. On Tuesday March 27th between 2pm & 3pm Peter Murphy will be at St Ives library to talk about his writing, answer questions and sign copies of his latest book Walden of Bermondsey. Peter Murphy is a recently retired judge and Walden of […]