About the West Ealing Neighbours Book Club
WEN’s reading group meet at the Star and Anchor pub on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm, and review a chosen book in a relaxed and friendly environment. It’s a great way to meet new people and everyone is welcome, so if you enjoy reading or want to get into reading regularly come along.
Getting a copy of the book is easy as West Ealing Library order in extra copies of the chosen book each month for the group. If you do have any questions, contact me, Sarah at wenreadinggroup@live.co.uk
Next meeting:
- 30th May – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Future Meetings:
- 27th June – Birthday by Joe Penhall (meeting at the Royal Court, see Sarah for tickets)
- 25th July – Dissolution by CJ Sampson
- 29th August – Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- 26th September – The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz by Denis Avey
- 24th October – Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
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Previous books:
2012
- 25th April – This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon (Advance copies with Sarah – this title isn’t yet published)
- 28th March – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- 29th February – Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- 25th January – The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
2011
- 7th December – Christmas Social at the Star and Anchor, Aunts aren’t Gentleman by PG Wodehouse
- 16th November – Jumpy by April de Angelis, we are seeing the play at the Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre downstairs.
- 26th October – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – read our review on Ealing Today
- 28th September – Life by Keith Richards
- 31st August – Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
- 26th July – Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain/Samuel Clements – read our review at Ealing Today.
- 28th June – The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (we saw the play at the National) – Read our review at Ealing Today
- May ‘The Slap’ by Christos Tsiolkas
- April ‘A Fine Balance’ by Rohinton Mistry
- March ‘The Settler’s Cookbook’ by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- February ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ by Jonathan Saffran Foer – read our review at Ealing Today.
2010
- December/January – ‘We are all made of glue’ by Marine Lewyca – read our review at Ealing Today
- November – ‘Oryx and Crake’ by Margaret Atwood – read our review at Ealing Today
- September – ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ by Mitch Albom
- August – ‘The Bell’ by Iris Murdoch
- July – ‘If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things’ by Jon McGregor
- June -’The Pregnant Widow’ by Martin Amis – read our review on Ealing Today
- May – ‘The Siege of Krishnapur’ by JG Farrell – read our review on Ealing Today
- April – ‘Saturday’ by Ian McEwan – read our review on Ealing Today.
- March ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver – read our review on Ealing Today.
- February ‘Loving Frank’ by Nancy Horan- read our review on Ealing Today
- January ‘Water for Elephants’ by Sara Gruen
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I just wanted to say that I enjoyed discussing Tom Sawyer and was delighted to hear that the group had enjoyed it so much.
So I will see you all at the end of Aug, I have already started Starter got 10 and it is a really quick read.
Wyx
I talked to a ten year old who’d read it too recently and loved it, so it really does work as a children’s novel too.
I started reading ‘Starter for Ten’ today. There’s just no arguing with: ‘if you’re a fan of Kate Bush, Charles Dickens, Scrabble, David Attenborough and University Challenge, then there’s not much out there for you in terms of a youth movement.’
Looks like we’ve got ourselves a few easy reads, this month and last.
See you in a few weeks.
Sarah x
Hello, I am in West Ealing and have just started an online Book Club called The Brilliant Book Club if anyone fancies joining in as well as in your one. There are many local people in it already but also it is open to people worldwide and there is no commitment to read every book or comment online. You can just read when you want to and chirp in if you like! Hope to see some of you over there! Lucy
Hi Lucy,
Is this just on facebook? I found it there or is there another site too? Thanks for telling us about this.
Sarah
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