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.

Summer Reading Programme - 2026

18 June: Slow Horses - Mick Herron

Spooks are supposed to be stealthy . . . But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House.
This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action.

So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world.

16 July: Day Without End – Sebastian Barry

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, Irishman Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the American Frontier Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. But when a young Indian girl crosses their path, Thomas and John must decide on the best way of life for them all in the face of dangerous odds.

20th August: Foster - Claire Keegan

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.

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