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Thursday 09 August 2018 17:30

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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 second Thursday of the month, meeting at 5:30pm for tea and the book discussions start at 6:30pm.


August

The Dinner by Herman Koch

A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide a terrible conflict and, with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened...

Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. Together, the boys have committed a horrifying act, caught on camera, and their grainy images have been beamed into living rooms across the nation; despite a police manhunt, the boys remain unidentified - by everyone except their parents. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children and, as civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.

Kindle £4.89. Paperback £8.99.


September

Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography by Damon Hill (chosen by Paul Hodkinson)

2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of Damon Hill's coronation as Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport when he took on the greats including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher and emerged victorious as World Champion in 1996, stepping out of the shadow of his legendary father Graham Hill. Away from the grid, Watching the Wheels: The Autobiography is an astonishingly candid account of what it was like to grow up as the son of one of the country's most famous racing drivers. It also tells the unflinching story of dealing with the grief and chaos that followed his father's tragically early death in an aircraft accident in 1975, when Damon was 15 years old. Formula One drivers have always been aware of their mortality, and the rush that comes with the danger of racing was as intoxicating for Hill as it had been for his father's generation, until he came face-to-face with catastrophe when his team-mate, Ayrton Senna, was killed in 1994. The swirling emotions that Hill was faced with in light of the death of Senna was a defining moment for his generation of drivers and for the first time ever Hill talks candidly about the impact that Senna had on his life, even as he watched his own son step into motor racing. Courageously honest, and hugely rewarding, Watching the Wheels is a return to the last golden era of F1 racing, whose image still burns ferociously for those who love the sport for what it reveals about human skill in the face or near certain death.

Kindle £5.66. Paperback £11.97.


October

Close to Home by Cara Hunter (Chosen by Gill O'Hara)

HOW CAN A CHILD GO MISSING WITHOUT A TRACE?

Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying.

DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows the nine times out of ten, it's someone the victim knew.

That means someone is lying...
And that Daisy's time is running out. 

Introducing DI Fawley and his team of Oxford detectives, and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for Spring 2018, CLOSE TO HOME is the new crime thriller series to get addicted to.

Kindle £0.99. Paperback £3.99.


November

Unholy Alliance by David Yallop (Chosen by Neil Beddow)

Imagine a company so big and so powerful that its annual turnover is equal in size to China's entire GDP. A company whose gross turnover for just one financial year is sufficient to buy at current market value the world's three largest public companies: General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell and Microsoft. A company that if it dipped into its petty cash could in the same year also buy Coca-Cola. A company where ten days' turnover is in excess of the combined assets of the world's top fifty banks.

It exists. Its current annual turnover of more than $500 billion is derived from just three products: heroin, cocaine, marijuana. The drugs cartel of cartels is a factual reality, but sometimes it is only through fiction that one can get close to the real truth.

Drawing on years of experience as a bestselling investigative writer, David Yallop has produced an explosive fiction debut. Unholy Alliance is a breath-taking high-speed race that goes straight to the truth behind the modern American nightmare and into an alarming, but all too believable future.

Kindle £5.99. Hardcover £19.37.


December

The Eagle has Landed by Jack Higgins (Chosen by Paul Timewell)

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED is probably the greatest World War II story ever written. Operation Eagle was to be the most daring enemy mission of the entire war. Himmler planned to kidnap Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But in that remote corner of Norfolk, an elite unit is also put together to begin the countdown to the invasion. A brilliant adventure in which the reader' sympathies are enlisted as much for the German heroes as for the English defenders.

Kindle £3.99. Paperback £8.99.

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.

Food & Meals
Why not come along at 5:30 and join the group for tea?
Getting There

Wagon 1871 is on Sheaf St in the same building as Showroom Cinema, just a short walk across the road from the railway station.

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Wagon 1871, Leadmill Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 4BA

Host & Everything Else

You may get most from Book Club if you've read the book first, but don't worry if not - you're welcome to come along and hear what others have to say about it.

Gill Siddons

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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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