Join us for a welcoming book club to discuss the current novel and choose the next month’s read.

We usually meet on the first Monday of each month for a relaxed conversation, sharing our thoughts in the friendly atmosphere amongst the bookshelves. This month the meeting is postponed to Monday 16th November due to bookshop events in the previous two weeks.

The bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our upstairs event space.

This Month’s Book

The Artist by Lucy Steeds

A furiously romantic, sun-drenched mystery … The Artist will leave you yearning in every sense of the word — Yael van der Wouden, author of The Safekeep

The Artist is a lush, impressive debut; the writing is rich and sensuous, especially in descriptions of food, the landscape and the act of creation. Lucy Steeds is one to watch — Sunday Times, Book of the Year

Dextrous and powerful … a hugely accomplished portrait of ambition and self-fulfilment — Guardian

The year’s most lauded debut novelist … A sultry, headily perfumed portrait of monstrous male egos and oppressed overlooked women … The Artist uncovers its secrets by stealth — Telegraph

Enthralling … the descriptions of the landscape, the meals they eat and the art created are so rich and evocative it’s as if you’re there — Good Housekeeping

PROVENCE, 1920

Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible.

Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the reclusive painter, the great Edouard Tartuffe.

But everyone has their secrets. And, under the cover of darkness, Ettie has spent years cultivating hers.

Over this sweltering summer, everyone’s true colours will be revealed.

Because Ettie is ready to be seen.
Even if it means setting her world on fire.

An intoxicating tale of creativity, possession and freedom. An impressively assured debut which asks questions about all those who are painted over by history — Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre

I could not love this beautiful novel more … the final chapters left me with that delicious heart-bursting feeling, full of hope and delight — Florence Knapp, author of The Names

Gorgeous … Steeped in the heat and atmosphere of 1920s Provence, this novel brims with intrigue, hope and yearning — Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory and The Burial Plot

Phenomenal … beautiful, pacey historical fiction, vividly realised. It drifts with the scent of summer, the land lit up and throbbing, the food piled high and richly painted, the paint as thick and buttery as food. I wanted to eat it. Yes, I even wanted to eat the paint. Read this book! — Seth Insua, author of Human, Animal