Book Club 2 is a group of curious, civically minded readers, mixed-gender U3A members who read:

• To talk together, not to perform cleverness
• To understand the world they live in now, not to retreat from it
• To hear voices they might not otherwise encounter, but within a shared cultural comfort zone

They value:

• Empathy
• Historical perspective
• Ethical seriousness
• Clear prose
• Emotional intelligence

We are recognised as politically alert but not ideologically rigid who prefer books that invite conversation rather than demand allegiance.

We buy our own books and aim to follow a mix of long/short and light/serious titles.

We meet at 10.30 on the third Thursday of each month in the Woods Room at the Old School Sully. The charge is £1.00 and coffee and biscuits can be obtained from the Jubilee Hall for another pound.

We’d love to welcome new members. Just drop us a line at bookclub2@sullyu3a.co.uk.

Autumn Reading Programme - 2026

17th September : The Edible Woman - Margaret Attwood

Margaret Atwood's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism.

Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flatmate and her sober fiancé Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner self that wants something more, that calmly sabotages her careful plans, her stable routine - and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach . . .

15th October : A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens's gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, as they become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

19th November:  The Book of Guilt – Catherine Chidgey

Set in an alternate 1979 Britain, The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey follows thirteen-year-old identical triplets Vincent, Lawrence, and William, the final sickly residents of a secluded New Forest boys' home. Supervised by three rotating caregivers known as "Mothers", the boys endure a strict regimen of daily medication while dreaming of an idyllic future in Margate. As the government program winds down, the children slowly uncover a sinister medical conspiracy revealing they are clones bred for unethical scientific testing.

New members are very welcome.  Please contact Richard via the group email [above].