Description: The Book Club meets every 6 weeks to discuss a current book for review. If you like to read and to talk about books this is for you – or you can just listen to what others have to say. Give it a go.
Coordinator: John Algate
Day: See list below & Calendar
Time: 9:30 am
Location: Shed, Front Meeting Room
More Information
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Any enquiries: John Algate Email: johnalgate55@gmail.com or 0429 780 440
Book List 2026
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The book club will hold its first meeting for 2026 on Thursday 29 January at 9.30am.
The full list of dates for book club discussions during 2026 is:
29 January –Machines Like Me (2019) by Ian McEwan. This novel, set in the Thatcher era, looks at advances in AI in the shape of a humanoid robot, Adam.
12 March – Storytellers: questions, answers and the craft of journalism (2023) by Leigh Sales. Insights into the journalists’ craft by one of Australia’s highest profile, most thoughtful and thought-provoking journalists.
23 April – The Book Thief (2005) by Markus Zusak. The Book Thief is set in Europe during World War II. It spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, and is translated into more than 40 languages. The book has established Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia.
21 May – The Ledge (2024) by Christian White. A mystery thriller. One synopsis states: When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the locals are shocked, and one group of old friends starts to panic.
2 July – I Mona Lisa (2022) by Natasha Solomons. An ‘autobiography’ of the world’s most famous painting. Its quite a story she has to tell.
13 August – The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2020) by Christy Lefteri. The struggles of a bee keeper and his artist wife who flee war torn Syria seeking asylum and a new life in Britain
24 September- The Chain (2019) by Adrian McKinty. A mystery thriller. How far will a mother go to save her child who has been kidnapped. Can she meet all the demands of the kidnappers or dare she try to outwit them?
5 November – Everyone in my family has killed somebody (2022) by Benjamin Stevenson. Is this the quirkiest Australian family since Cloudstreet. An interesting blend of whodunnit, family saga and self-deprecating humour.
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