P&G Wells Book Group
We started a Book Group P&G Wells in March 2023 and it has gone from strength to strength. We are very much enjoying sharing a range of books.
The meetings are friendly and relaxed. Not all members have to attend every meeting though we hope you may still wish to read the books even if you cannot come along. New members will always be welcome though we may need to restrict the size of the group if we get too large. We hope the meetings will encourage lively discussions but there will be no pressure to say anything if you don’t want to!
We read a mixture of books with a slant towards contemporary fiction. Any book we choose will be available in paperback. Books are chosen by P&G Wells staff and long standing members of the group. We request that members of the Book Group buy the selected book from our shop. Please remember that being a member of the Book Group is about supporting P&G Wells Bookshop.
Book Group will take place on the third Thursday of the month (excluding August and December).
Places for each meeting will be limited to 12 participants.
The next meeting will be on Thursday 20 February at 6:30pm.
Previous month’s titles:
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (April 2023)
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (May 2023)
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (June 2023)
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (July 2023)
Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff (September 2023)
The Romantic by William Boyd (October 2023)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (November 2023)
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au (January 2024)
Pearl by Sian Hughes (February 2024)
Cuddy by Benjamin Myers (March 2024)
Spring Rain by Marc Hamer (April 2024)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (May 2024)
Windmill Hill by Lucy Atkins (June 2024)
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (July 2024)
La Vie by John Lewis-Stempel (September 2024)
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (October 2024)
Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert (November 2024)
The Red House Mystery by A A Milne (January 2025)
You can read details of all the books selected on our Bookshop.org online shop.
February 2025’s Book Group title
is available in the bookshop now, or order online below!
-
The librarianist
£9.99The librarianist
Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior centre that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering there. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet’s straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child’s runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian’s vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses.
£9.99