Book Lovers Group

Join us at the popular SBC Book Club. Enjoy lively discussions over a drink or two. Whether you are an avid reader or would like to read more, you'll love our relaxed friendly group.

 

 

Where and when do you meet?
Our Book Lovers Group meets at 7pm on the first Wednesday of each month at The Traverse Theatre Bar. 10 Cambridge Street EH1 2ED Map

How do you choose books?
Each month a member of the group will choose a book for us to read and discuss. Read on for a list of this year's books.

Do I need to be a member of the Sunday Brunch Club?
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2012 Books
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	- Wednesday 11 January 2012 The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak *****THIS MONTH WILL WE MOVE TO THE FILMHOUSE CAFE AS THERE IS A BAND ON AT THE TRAVERSE Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ Map "Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored..."
	- Wednesday 1 February 2012 The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric "This book is fabulous - funny, horrific, subversive - in short a wholly addictive read. I don't think I have enjoyed anything as much since Perfume" Joanne Harris "If it doesn't scoop all the prizes, we live in an unjust world. It's an absolute corker ... It's years since I enjoyed a novel this much - or felt such strong envy of an author for having the breadth and richness of imagination to create such a world" A.N. Wilson "This is, essentially, a love story told by a delightfully riotous collection of characters and voices ... Fantastically gripping" Marie Claire "A witty, exciting, over-the-top page-turner which becomes increasingly addictive... Quite unlike anything else around - and all the better for that" Daily Mail
	- Wednesday 7 March 2012 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe   "One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most famous novelist, Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian English missionaries arrive among the Ibos of Nigeria, bringing along their European ways of life and religion. In the novel, the Nigerian Okonkwo recognizes the cultural imperialism of the white men and tries to show his own people how their own society will fall apart if they exchange their own cultural core for that of the English."
	- Wednesday 4 April 2012 Whit by Iain Banks "A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four- yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon. Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs - Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective."
	- Wednesday 2 May 2012 Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster "An excellently funny, moving novel-a text for our times" The Independent
	- Wednesday 6 June 2012 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver "Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it... a horrifying, original, witty, brave and deliberately provocative investigation into all the casual assumptions we make about family life, and motherhood in particular" Daily Mail "This startling shocker strips bare motherhood... the most remarkable Orange prize victor so far" Polly Toynbee, The Guardian "One of the most striking works of fiction to be published this year. It is Desperate Housewives as written by Euripides... A powerful, gripping and original meditation on evil" New Statesman
	- Wednesday 4 July 2012 Book to be decided
	- Wednesday 1 August 2012 Book to be decided
	- Wednesday 5 September 2012 Book to be decided
	- Wednesday 3 October 2012 Book to be decided
	- Wednesday 7 November 2012 Book yet to be decided
	- Wednesday 5 December 2012 Book to be decided

 

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