• Books and book reading – Where the hornbeam grows by Beth Lynch

    Library Bell Street, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    A memoir by Beth Lynch. After moving to Switzerland feeling lonely and out of place she realises that she needs to get her hands dirty if she wants to feel at home. She sets about doing this in the best way she knows - by caring for a garden and growing things. Her travels across […]

  • Books and book reading – Keeping the Dead by Tess Gerritsen

    Library Bell Street, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    One of Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles novels. When asked to examine an ancient mummy Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles finds a not so ancient bullet on the scan. Detective Jane Rizzoli joins the investigation and further victims start cropping up. Who is the murderer and why does he mummify his victims? Image - Crime Scene […]

  • Books and book reading – Troubles by J G Farrell

    Library Bell Street, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Ireland 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives at the Majestic Hotel and his fiancée, whom he rashly acquired three years earlier while on an afternoon's leave. Their engagement proves to be short-lived as the lady concerned eludes him. But the crumbling hotel captivates him and he is unable to remove himself from it. He passes the […]

  • Books and book reading – On the floor by Aifric Campbell

    Library Bell Street, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Geri Molloy is a major player at a London Investment bank. She earns a six figure salary working with a reclusive hedge fund manager based in Hong Kong. The story is set in the months leading up to the 1991 Gulf War when her life starts to fall apart. Her financier boyfriend abandons her and […]

  • Books and book reading – Three Sisters by Heather Morris

    Library Bell Street, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Three sisters Cibi, Magda and Livia, promise their father that they will always stay together. At the tender age of 15, Livia is sent to Auschwitz. Cibi, the eldest and only 19 herself, honours her promise and follows Livia, determined to protect her, or die with her. They fight to stay alive through incomprehensible cruelty […]

  • Books and book reading – The Wartime Bookclub by Kate Thompson

    Library Bell Street, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    In 1943 the German Army invaded the peaceful island of Jersey in the Channel Islands. Grace La Motée, the librarian, is ordered to destroy any books which oppose the Nazi regime. Determined to keep the library running she refuses, hides the books, and fights back by forming a book club. One chapter at a time […]