This is an evening group, meeting at 7.15pm, in a private location. The book choices are selected by each member in turn, thus opening up the opportunity for a wider inclusion of the rich literary melting pot which is available to us! It is hoped that the informality of this arrangement will also promote a… Read more

We do writing exercises in the group to trigger ideas for fiction writing, and focus on various topics like dialogue, character, building tension etc, first learning about it, then practising our skills. We communicate mainly through our WhatsApp group but there is also a group email for sharing work. Parking can be difficult as it… Read more

This is the "Around the World in 80 books" group. As of March 2024 we have read 47 books since we started in 2020, taking us to over 50 different destinations. If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or exploring the world through books, this may be the book group for you. Read more

Running continuously every month since October 2019, even through Lockdown (where we learnt a huge amount about Zoom) we are a small group of U3A members with a shared interest in reading and sharing our thoughts about the books we read. Some of the group’s books have been easy, others less so, but it is… Read more