BOOK CLUB
"Reading is a stationary journey that nourishes the mind and broadens horizons." - Victor Hugo
Book Club for Individuals as part of a group.
See our current book club programmes below.
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Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.
Synopsis:
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Synopsis:
Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens.
Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional masterpiece, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century.