The Love of a Good Woman
We had a great discussion about We Have Always Lived in the Castle, ranging from why didn’t Merricat poison the whole Village, was Constance Merricat’s prisoner, were Constance and Merricat the same person, and...
Brixton Book Group Blog
We have always lived in the Castle
The doodle is back! (Not including vote as we’re still online) we talked about flying tortoises and colonialism in the very excellent Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The book for next time is...
Things fall apart
There were a lot of us online to discuss The Louder I will Sing, which prompted a discussion about really good autobiographies, things we didn’t know about Brixton and one man’s powerful struggle to...
Lanark
This is an additional meeting to discuss our current Long Read – Lanark by Alasdair Gray, which is celebrating it’s 40th year of publication on the 25th of February. It’s a little under 600...
The Louder I will Sing
We had a virtually packed meeting to chat about Rebecca, the perils of accidentally shooting someone on purpose, Danvers shade and the aristocracy getting away with murder. How times have changed. Book for next...