Withiel Parish is greatly saddened by the news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022 We would like to acknowledged her irreplaceable role in the life of the nation and in the...
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Listen to the Moon
This book by Michael Morpurgo, set on Bryher, prompted a lively Second Circle discussion about World War I, the nature of the enemy and the importance of family and friends. When a little girl was found alone and barely alive...
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Quiz Night – Friday 12 November
QUIZ NIGHT - Fri, 12 Nov 2021 - WITHIEL VILLAGE HALL 7.30pm first question — £3 pp — £7 pp with tacos To book your Table and Food: Christine Wilson - 01208 831 283 - c2b5w3@gmail.com ~ Tables of 4...
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A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernières
November 2015 Chris is 40 and bored with his life. He has a daughter that he adores but is not particularly happy in his marriage (calling his wife ‘The Great White Loaf’). One evening he spots a prostitute, the first...
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An Italian Education by Tim Parks
November 2015 This month I had to say, 'Sorry!' for suggesting a book that left most of the group unimpressed and a few rather irritated. An Italian Education by Tim Parks was so underwhelming no one finished it. Not a single person....
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The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
September 2015 We had a warm enthusiastic discussion of a bleak, dispiriting book. What made The Grass is Singing so impressive? It's the first novel of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, Doris Lessing. In an interview at the age...
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
June 2015 Who was Samuel Pepys? He wrote a diary. But what else? He is one of those people from history I knew of but knew next to nothing about. This biography by Claire Tomalin went a long way towards...
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The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Have you ever described an odd plant in your garden as a triffid? John Wyndham's novel brought the term into our vocabulary in 1951, and it entered the Oxford English Dictionary, rather late I think, in 1986. What is it...
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The Round House by Louise Erdrich
March 2015 This month’s book represented a new venture for our group as it described Native American life on a reservation in North Dakota. The author, Louise Erdrich, has a wealth of experience from which to draw. Her German-American father...
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Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
February 2015 George Edalji is a vicar’s son from Staffordshire. A quiet, precise person, he never really fits in with the local community, even as a boy. After qualifying as a solicitor, George begins work at a law firm in...