The University of the Third Age - Welwyn Hatfield
Book Study Group 1
Leader: Susan Marsh, 01707 890846
Book Group 1 meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 10 am. Meetings are held in group member’s own homes. Our annual reading list is chosen following group discussion in the autumn. We currently have spaces for one or two new members. Please contact Susan Marsh on the above number.
Please note that we have an arrangement whereby the library provides the chosen books for us.
The reading list for 2022 is as follows:-
- March 29th -
“Coffin Road” by Peter May (Janet Maisey)
- April 26th -
“Mrs Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf (Margaret Medhurst)
- May 24th -
“Grave Tattoo” by Val McDermott (Ann Smith)
- June 28th -
“Rodham” by Curtis Sittenfield (Liz White)
- July 26th -
“The Girl Who Came Home” by Hazel Gaynor (Pat Mabbott)
- August 22nd -
“The Evening and the Morning” by Ken Follett (Susan Marsh)
- September 27th -
“Songbirds” by Christy Lefteri (Valerie Windebank)
- October 25th -
Poetry and next year’s books
- November 22nd -
“Munich” by Robert Harris” (Maryam Rodway)
- December -
No meeting
The reading list for 2023 is as follows:-
- “Once Upon a River” by Diane Setterfield
- “Hotel du Lac” by Anita Brookner
- “Fludd” by Hilary Mantel.
- “Still Life” by Sarah Winman
- “Anatomy of a Scandal” by Sarah Vaughan
- “A Grave Tattoo” by Val McDiarmid
- “The Paper Palace” by Miranda Cowley Heller
- “Good Behaviour” by Molly Keane
- “Lessons in Chemistry”, by Bonnie Garmus
- “State of Terror” by Hilary Clinton & Louise Penny
- “The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant
- “The Wild Silence” by Raynor Winn.
The reading list for 2023 is as follows:-
- “Two Brothers” by Ben Elton
- “Go as a River” by Shelley Read
- “A Terrible Kindness” by Jo Browning Wroe
- “The House of Fortune” by Jessie Burton
- “Notes on an Execution” by Danya Kukafka
- “The Hand that First Held Mine” by Maggie O’Farrell
- “How to Kill your Family” by Bella Mackie
- “Romantic” by William Boyd
- “Landlines” by Raynor Winn
- Poetry (No books needed)
- “This is Happiness” by Niall Williams
The reading list for 2025 is as follows:-
- 20th December 28th January “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
- 20th January 25th February “The Maid" by Nita Prose
- 20th February 25th March “Oh, William” by Elizabeth Strout
- 20th March 22nd April “The Lost Wife” by Susannah Moore
- 20th April 27th May “All the Broken Places” by John Boyne
- 20th May 24th June “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton
- 20th June 22nd July “The Marriage Portrait” by Maggie O’Farrell
- 20th July 26th August "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Tom Hanks
- 20th August 23rd September Poetry readings, no books required
- 20th September 28th October “The Last Devil to Die” by Richard Osman
- 20th October 25th November “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce
Book Study Group 2
Leader: Marion Sklar, 01707 324402
All meetings are held at 2pm on the last Thursday of each month at Marion's house.( Unless informed otherwise).
Both fiction and nonfiction books are discussed, many of which are easily available at the library or secondhand book shops.
Several of our readers make use of kindles/or Audiobooks.
There are no vacancies at present.
Book Study Group 3
Leader: Tessa Abberley: phone - 07596 778465
Book group 3 meets once a month, on the 2nd Friday of the month, at 11am at Tessa's house in Brockswood Lane, Welwyn Garden City. We look at fiction and non fiction, old and new, occasional plays, poetry and journalism. If you are interested in joining us, please contact the group leader.
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