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We are delighted to be launching our third adult book club!
Our first group which meets on a Thursday was established a year ogo, and has given us a great opportunity to chat about some great books in a relaxed and informal way. There is no pressure to say anything if you don't want to. The book club takes place on the second Thursday of each month from 7.30pm-8.30pm in The Golden Lion in Leyburn.
Our new Wednesday book club will meet on the third Wednesday of the month in the shop at 7.30pm. Tea and coffee will be provided.
We will read a mix of books with a focus on contemporary fiction.
At the moment both our Thursday and Wednesday book clubs are full. Please email info@thewonkytreebookshop.co.uk if you would like to join a waiting list for either of our groups, or pop into the shop to register your interest.
For details of our Books, Blokes and Beer book club please see the tab in the 'Community' section.
There's only one rule for our book clubs - please do buy the book from us!
1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan.
Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.
And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . .
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls.
1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living.
But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.
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