City of Westminster

Marylebone Reading Group

Do you like reading? Do you like discussing books with other people? Want to discover new authors?

Marylebone Library's Readers Group meets

  • on the second Tuesday of the month
  • from 6.00 to 7.45pm
  • in Marylebone Library
  • to talk about a chosen book, or a particular theme.

    Whether it's a book for the beach, discovering a new crime novelist, dipping into the past, trying out the latest prizewinner, or just sharing recommendations, Marylebone Library Readers Group provides a forum for the sheer pleasure of talking about books.
Forthcoming meetings:
DateAuthor and title of book
Tuesday 15 May

The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman

Tuesday 12 June

Decline and fall Evelyn Waugh

Tuesday 10 July (TBC)  
Tuesday 14 August (TBC)  

Contact Marylebone Library for more details

Sessions are free, refreshments are provided, and new members are always welcome!

Amongst other topics, we've read and discussed the Man Booker shortlist titles; authors linked with Black History; novels by Wilkie Collins, Ian McEwan and Peter Ackroyd, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban and much more........

If you are interested in coming along please contact Georgina Levassor-Collins at Marylebone Library.

Join us soon!

Previously read...

Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Part II)

Candide by Voltaire

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Gillespie and I by Jane Harris

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark

A Passage to India, by EM Forster

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Coming up for air by George Orwell

The siege by Helen Dunmore

The language of bees by Laurie R. King

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