Brompton Library Reading Group

Brompton Library Reading Group

Brompton Library Reading Group is welcoming new members!

By Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries

Select date and time

Tue, 6 May 2025 18:30 - 19:30 GMT+1

Location

Brompton Library

210 Old Brompton Road London SW5 0BS United Kingdom

About this event

Joining a reading group is a great way to meet new people and share the pleasure of reading, exchange views on the books you have read and consider books you would never have imagined reading.

Brompton Library Reading Group meets every first Tuesday of the month to discuss great titles - from classics to modern prize winners.

Copies of the books are available for pick up at Brompton Library.

On Tuesday, 4 February we will discuss Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy.

Great Gatsby-inspired novel, about Russian oligarchs in London, was the New York Times Editor's Choice and Waterstones Book of the Month, as well as being long-listed for the Baileys Prize and serialised as Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio Four. It has been translated into fifteen languages.

We will be joined by the author, Vesna Goldsworthy.

Vesna Goldsworthy comes from Belgrade. At 24 she moved to the UK and started writing in English, her third language. Her widely-translated books include a prize-winning poetry collection The Angel of Salonika; an internationally bestselling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries; and the London-based novels Gorsky and Monsieur Ka. A former BBC World Service journalist, she is now an academic and occasional broadcaster.

Have a look at the titles ethe group have read previously:

In January 2023 we are reading 1984 by George Orwell.

On Tuesday, 7 February we will be discussing Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.

On Tuesday, 7 March our choice is Patrick Melrose books by Edward St Aubyn.

On Tuesday, 4 April we will be discussing Normal People by Sally Rooney.

On Tuesday, 2 May we will be discussing Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie.

On Tuesday, 6 June we will discuss Solo by William Boyd.

O n Tuesday, 4 July we will talk about The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler.

O n Tuesday, 1 August, we will be discussing A Legacy by Sybille Bedford.

On Tuesday, 5 September we will be talking about The Muse by Jessie Burton.

On Tuesday, 3 October we will be discussing The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.

On Tuesday, 7 November we will be talking about Human Acts by Han Kang.

On Tuesday, 5 December we will talk about The Man from London by Georges Simenon.

On Tuesday, 9 January 2024 will be discussing The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham.

On Tuesday, 6 February we will be discussing Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

On Tuesday, 5 March we will be talking about Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh.

On Tuesday, 9 April we will be discussing The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.

On Tuesday, 7 May we will discuss The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre.

On Tuesday, 2 July we will talk about The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

On Tuesday, 3 September we will discuss Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn.

On Tuesday, 1 October we will be talking about Clock Dance by Anne Tyler.

On Tuesday, 5 November we will talk about Room by Emma Donoghue.

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