Book Group
A very popular group whose members enjoy lively discussions about books recommended by one of the groupOur first and very popular group is still going strong after over ten years and in January 2023 a second group was set up. The programme below is for the original group which meets each month except for September at 7.30pm on the Wednesday of the week after the WI branch meeting. Members take it in turns to host the meetings. Over the course of a year we read modern fiction, classics, works in translation and at least one non-fiction title. Books which we think will produce interesting discussions are chosen by the group from suggestions by members.
The newer group meets at the Bell in Adderbury on the last Tuesday of the month at 6.30pm. In memory of one of its members who sadly died it is known as Meriel’s Book Group. Details of the titles will be added as soon as they are available. Members decide on a number of titles and each month Oxfordshire Library Service sends a set of one of them which needs to be returned in four weeks time. Until the books arrive members don’t know which title it will be. New members will be very welcome to join us, so please contact Margaret or Kay if you would like to come.
Wednesday Book Group Programme January – December 2026
We do not meet in September
| Date | Title | Author | Host |
| January 14 | Fundamentally | Nussalbah Younis | Sandra |
| February 11 | The Light and the Dark | Horatio Clare | Bernice |
| March 11 | The Book Binder of Jericho | Pip Williams | Su |
| April 8 | The Place of Tides | James Rebank | Mary |
| May 13 | The Instrumentalist | Harriet Constable | Dawn |
| June 10 | Villette | Charlotte Bronte | Sheila |
| July 8 | The Woman Behind the Waterfall | Leonora Meriel | |
| August 12 | The Frozen River | Ariel Lawhorn | |
| October 14 | The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | |
| November11 | My Friends | Fredrik Backman | |
| December 9 | The Offing | Bernard Myers |
Meriel’s Book Group – further details will be added as they are available
| Date | Title | Author | |
| January |
Great Circle A Sign of Her Own |
Maggie Shipstead or Sarah Marsh |
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| February | The Reading List | Sara Nisha Adams | |
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| May | The Mermaid of Black Conch | Monique Roffey | |
| June | On Chapel Sands | Laura Cumming | |
| July | Hamnet | Maggie O’Farrell | |
| August | The Purgatory Poisoning | Rebecca Rogers | |
| September | The Escape Artist | Jonathan Freedland | |
| October | City of Thorns | Ben Rawlence | |
| November | Unfinished Portrait | Agatha Christie as Mary Westmacott | |
| December | In Memorium | Alice Winn |