This is our reading list for the first 7 months of 2023: January – The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath February – The Salt Path – Raynor Winn March – A Long Petal of the Sea – Isabel Allende April – Not Normal – Paul Connolly...
Frostquake by Juliet Nicolson On 3 December 1962, a noxious smog descended on London, as falling temperatures saw more and more coal fires lit. The four-day fog spread to other cities and twenty-two counties in total. Whilst deaths were far fewer than the famous smog...
Our latest book was Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud. Set in Trinidad, it tells the story of the irrepressible Betty, her shy son Solo and their gay lodger, Mr Chetan, who Betty takes in following the death of her abusive husband. This is an unconventional, but...
Sally Rooney’s (author of Normal People) third novel, Beautiful World Where Are You was our book for September. The novel is set in Ireland. Alice is a very successful and wealthy author who has been through a difficult period in New York and a nervous breakdown. She...
Climate Change and Going Green As well as being a member of Barnes WI, Sarah Hughes is a WI Climate Ambassador. She shared with us what being an ambassador means and how she has stepped up to the challenge. “I have been trying to do my bit for the environment...
Over the summer we have read This Lovely City by Louisa Hare and Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, both with the underlying theme, amongst others, of what it is like to be black in this country. In This Lovely City, Lawrie answers the post-war call for workers and...
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