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Unfortunately we were quite disorganised at the last meeting, we were going to go for 19th September but didn't decide on a book so that dates probably not going to work now. Does anyone fancy doing a list then maybe we could organise a date for October?

Be there shortly

I can't remember who said they were doing the next list - just know it wasn't me! would be nice to sit upside if the weathers still good.

Yes ok, I'm intending to put mine in tomorrow. Good list, can't quite make my mind up

I will be there tonight but a bit late as finished work late

O good see you shortly!

Is anyone planning on coming?

Hi Fiona, yes please join us, will be at House of Tippler about 7.45pm, we normally sit either in the window at the front or through the back to the left.

Hi, I'm planning on being there. Cat x

I can do 16th

So sorry I didn't put it in my diary and have double-booked myself -aargh!! hope someone turns up!

11th is fine with me. Sorry not to make it tonight. Cat x

I'm not sure if I'll make it or not tonight so I'm going to pm my vote to Ashley just in case.

Hi Betsy yes you're welcome to join the group. We meet at the House of Tippler on Lordship Lane at 7.45 ish. Next meeting is 21st March and the book is The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien. Hope you can make it. Cat x

Our next meeting will be on 21st March and the winning book is The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien. Ashley volunteered to do the next list, theme to be decided! See you all next month.

I will be late as finished work late, be there about 8.30

Hi All, Attached is the list for next month's book, based on the theme of Ireland in respect of St Patrick's day. PM me your vote if you cant make it tomorrow. Hopefully you can open the attachment, if not, I'll repost tomorrow morning. Cat x

O no that's a shame you can't make it Susan 😕. I'm doing the list for next week, I'll put it up at the weekend.

Not sure if I make it tonight, have to work late, liked spooky house of usher!

Holly it's the 15th November

Ive read them all cos i like that kind of stuff but Jekyll and Hyde we've already done before in bookclub so I'm voting for the other two. 1. House of usher 2. Turn of the Screw

Just a reminder for tomorrow's meeting 7:45 for 8 at House of Tippler!

Hi Ashley yes the book club is open to new members, next meeting by the way is 18th October, book is The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. We normally sit through the back on the left, hope to see you there.

Hi All, Here is the book list for this month, based, loosely, on the theme of 'Sport' London Fields - Martin Amis London Fields is a black comic, murder mystery. The murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. London Fields is a brilliant, funny, multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life... all Samson has to do is write it as it happens. The novel proceeds on the basis that the lying and cheating Keith Talent, known criminal and aspiring professional darts player, gearing up to play in the Sparrow Masters darts final, will kill Nicola... Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy Sayers Victor Dean fell to his death on the stairs of Pym's Adverising Agency, but no-one seems to be sorry. Until an inquisitive new copywriter joins the firm and asks some awkward questions... Disguised as his disreputable cousin Death Bredon, Lord Peter Wimsey takes a job - one that soon draws him into a vicious network of blackmailers and drug pedlars. Five people will die before Wimsey unravels a sinister deadly plot, with a game of cricket playing a pivotal role in the proceedings, from nearly blowing Wimsey's cover to handing him the final clue which is masterfully woven into the action. Piccadilly Jim - PG Wodehouse Beautiful young red head, Ann Chester, plots to kidnap her irritating cousin with the help of a former boxer, her uncle, and a rogue who has his eye on her. Society rabble-rouser and tabloid favourite Jimmy Crocker falls very much in love with Ann but nothing works out exactly as planned as criminals, detectives and cases of mistaken identity get in the way. In a dizzying plot that rivals Shakespeare for characters pretending to be others, impersonations pile on impersonations so that (for reasons that do become clear)Jimmy ends up having to spend a considerable portion of the book pretending to be himself. Endlessly good-humoured with a sparky heroine and a likeable hero, Piccadilly Jim is one of Wodehouse's most renowmed comic novels Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. This is not going to be a gentleman's game. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman and the mysterious Mt Nutt. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever. Behind the fantasy Terry Pratchett looks at very real contemporary issues, satirical, historical, fantastical and irresistible The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal where he discovers a talent for long-distance running. This brings him to the notice of the Governor and he is entered into a race, one he could quite easily win, but chooses to deliberately lose. A ground breaking work, it captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands of the 1960's. Sillitoes's depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago Nana - Emile Zola In the waning years of the French Second Empire, French prostitute Nana Coupeau rises from the streets to the heights of clandenstine French society by virtue of her performance as the lead in a fictional operetta. While her performance is terrible, her sex appeal and magnetism win over the audience. Subsequently Nana, despite the fact she can neither sing nor dance, becomes a star of the Varieties and the toast of Paris. When one of Nana's aspiring lovers runs two horses in the Grand Prix de Paris, Nana shows up to the race dressed in her lover's stable colours and displayed in an ornate carriage drawn by four white horses. A frenzy of gambling, gossiping and showing off ensues, in which it is discovered that no one has bet on the filly named for Nana. When the filly wins the triumph leads to a wild evening of celebrations, but ultimately ends in diaster. A totally engaging, ripping yarn about the rise and fall of a beautiful courtesan in Paris in the 1870's

Sorry to hear about your daughter. I'm not quite sure how these things work but I was definitely able to keep the same number with no problem when I had my phone stolen, this was with t mobile.