Book Club Sheffield
Overview
You can choose to read the book beforehand or just come along for tea and listen to the discussion! It's up to you. This is a relaxed group and you don’t have to have read the book to be able to come to the events. Just be mindful that you will hear all about the book. That may be a good thing. It may be a bad thing depending on how you look at it.
Please come prepared to pay at least £2 on the night for Book Aid International.
Book Club is on the first Thursday of the month, meeting at 5:30pm for tea and the book discussions start at 6:30pm.
Upcoming books are below. All prices are at Amazon (unless stated otherwise) and correct at 6 December 2018.
September
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
In 1989 THE SILVER PIGS introduced the world to laid-back first-century detective Marcus Didius Falco, his partner Helena Justina, his law and order pal Petronius, and his indomitable Mother - who became some of the most celebrated characters in historical fiction.
Now reissued in a special new edition to celebrate publication of Falco's twentieth investigation, THE SILVER PIGS sees Falco cynically eyeing up the new Roman emperor, Vespasian. Our hero, a private informer, rescues a young girl in trouble and is catapulted into a dangerous game involving stolen imperial ingots, a dark political plot and, most hazardous of all, a senator's daughter connected to the traitors Falco has sworn to expose ...
Kindle £4.99. Paperback £8.99.
October
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Some doors are locked for a reason...
Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge.
With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure – a Silent Companion – that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...
Kindle £3.17. Paperback £3.99.
November
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
“Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.”
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – the world’s only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded – the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea…
People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons – well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel – would quite like the Rapture not to happen.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…
Kindle £4.99. Paperback £6.47.
December
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin
An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters want him to retire. But Rebus is stubborn. As he investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love...
Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared and Siobhan must help the family, which means getting close to a convicted rapist. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons found buried beneath a cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. An elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the housing-scheme known as Knoxland?
Kindle £5.99. Paperback £6.48.
Extras
Please pay a £2 minimum donation on the night to Book Aid International www.bookaid.org.
Pay for your own food if joining the group for tea.
Location & Itinerary
17:30. Meet up for tea
18:30. We start to discuss the book.
Why not come along at 5:30 and join the group for tea?
You can check out Cavells' menus here.
Cavells café bar.
We usually sit on the raised area just to your right as you come in through the front door.
Cavells is on High Street in Sheffield. It is on the same side and down from the cathedral & up from the Bankers Draft pub.
The buses & trams run outside the front of the pub.
If driving, you can either park on the street in Campo Lane or one of the NCP car parks on Campo Lane at the back of Cavells.
The pub does have a small free car park to the rear off Hartshead, but it is protected by a barrier. To use it, drive up to the barrier and call the pub on 0114 249 0595 asking them to raise it. If you do park here, you must move your car when you leave as if you move on to another place and Cavells closes, you will be unable to get your car out.
If driving, it’s quicker & easiest to come in through back door of the pub off Campo Lane.
Host & Everything Else
I really enjoyed this evening, a great opportunity to chat about books with like minded people. I'm really looking forward to the next one even though the choice of book isn't something I'd normally read.
A sociable evening discussing a variety of books, in a convenient location.
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