Category: Reading

From last month’s classic Dickens novel to a tale of political espionage and historical fact. “Munich” by Robert Harris. Harris is an excellent writer and can credibly breathe life into sometimes dusty historical events. An easy read and ideal for a hot June afternoon. Like many Harris novels “Munich” blends fact and fiction. The novel…

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – gets the ‘thumbs up’ from all the Group members While this wasn’t a novel I would have chosen to read for myself and having seen some film adaptations, the Reading Group challenges us all to get out of our comfort reading zone and try something different. This was Dickens…

For this month’s U3A Reading Group, the book we chose was a work of Non-Fiction. ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING. A journey round the Shipping Forecast by Charles Connelly. For those of us of a Certain Age! When BBC radio was almost the only source of entertainment and news, the Shipping Forecast was a familiar and comforting…

A novel both of Fact and Fiction, Politics, Romance and Scandal. As in all Robert Harris novels before and since this is both a mixture of fascinating historical fact combined with his uncanny ability to blend in fictionalised details that feel entirely credible. Harris sets this novel in the months leading up to the outbreak…

The group met on Friday 31 October for our usual monthly meeting. We met at the Alcazar restaurant which is a very pleasant venue where hopefully we will continue to meet for the foreseeable future. Our very first meeting was in November 2007 when we discussed our first book, The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim…