The Pick ‘n’ Mix Book Group
Check out the book titles for the rest of the year!Next event: Monday 11 July at 2pm
- Free
- Meeting Room
Part of: Free activities and events
Part of: Free activities and events
2-4pm, The Meeting Room. Free to attend.
We are a friendly group of people who would welcome some new members. Titles are planned for the year ahead during the August meeting and include a mixed range of classic and modern fiction and biographies.
2021/22 Book List
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu by Charlie English
Please contact Wendy Bawn via email (w.bawn27@btinternet.com) for more information or if you’d like to attend
Monday 11 July | 2pm | Meeting Room | ||
Monday 8 August | 2pm | Meeting Room | ||
Monday 12 September | 2pm | Meeting Room | ||
Monday 10 October | 2pm | Meeting Room | ||
Monday 7 November | 2pm | Meeting Room | ||
Monday 12 December | 2pm | Meeting Room |
Take part in an informal writing workshop with poet Betty Doyle. Betty will take you through some writing techniques and creative exercises to help with the writing process.
Work with Stig of the Dump actors who will demonstrate how much fun can be had by using different skills other than voice to encapsulate stories.
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2 hr 55 | A film about friendship between Bruno, who repairs film projectors and travels along the inner-German border in his truck, and the psychologist Robert, who is fleeing from his own past.
2 hr 6 | Jonathan Zimmermann believes that he will soon die of leukemia. The unscrupulous American Tom Ripley, learns of this and exploits Zimmermann’s illness for his own purposes.
2 hr 8 | Guardian angels listen to mortals and attempt to comfort them but one of them wishes to become human after he falls in love with the beautiful trapeze artist.
2 hr 28 | The story of Travis, a man who wanders out of Mexico and into Texas one day, in the blazing heat of the “Big Bend”.
3 hrs 25 | A devastating curse rises from the ashes in Verdi’s monumental tale of superstition and rivalry.
3 hr 25 | Magic and fairytale characters are brought to life through ballet in this well-known family favourite.
4 hrs | Director David McVicar brings out the revolutionary elements in Mozart’s great comic opera of intrigue, misunderstanding and forgiveness.
3 hrs | A new production of the much-loved Royal Ballet fairytale classic.
3 hr 20 | Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour, dance and drama in Andrei Serban’s classic staging.
3 hr 10 | Christopher Wheeldon’s new full-length ballet brings the magic realism of this famous modern Mexican novel to The Royal Ballet.