Maggie's marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she's fine - she's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's alone for the first time...
Our Book & Bottle reviews, discussed over fine wine, include:
Metronome by Tom Watson
Not all that is hidden is lost... For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to...
On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
After twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. But now the streets are choked with students...
The Fell by Sarah Moss
“At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two week quarantine...
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers...
Free Love by Tessa Hadley
It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, meanwhile, Phyllis Fischer inhabits a world of conventional stability....
Turning Blue by Benjamin Myers
In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing. The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches...
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
Our book for March was The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang. Some people really loved it and some really didn’t get on with it. I think we were all...
The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews
The majority of us really enjoyed this gothic tale by Rosie Andrews. It got weird towards the end but in a good way and we thought it was really...
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined...
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
We really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, even people who don't normally like sci-fi. Andy Weir is a great writer, this book is highly recommended!...
Waiting for Ted by Marieke Bigg
WAITING FOR TED charts the destruction of Rosalind and Ted's relationship at the hands of an expensive chaise longue. Rosie dreams of being a...
The Trees by Percival Everitt
Monday 7th November, 7.30pm @Harvey Leonards
Cold Dawn by James Ellson
It was brilliant to have author James Ellson join us for a Q&A at October's Book & Bottle meeting. We really enjoyed hearing what he had to...
Nettles by Adam Scovell
Monday 5th September 2022, 7.30pm @Harvey Leonard’s Wine & Ale
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