Thank you to the publisher for sending copies of this Poetry Pharmacy Forever by Willliam Sieghart for our reading group. I really enjoyed the look and feel of this book. The textured, old fashioned cover gives it weight and a Read More …
Category: Reading group
Joint SWFT and GEH Wellbeing read: Lioness by Emily Perkins
The joint book group choice for this month was Lioness by Emily Perkins. Described as ‘perfection’ (Glamour magazine), ‘a thoughtful, intelligent novel about one woman’s search for more meaning’ (Good Housekeeping), ‘a coolly ironic look at modern womanhood’ (The Times) Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review of The dark circle by Linda Grant
Our September read at George Eliot was The Dark Circle by Linda Grant. Written in 2016 and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, it’s set in the 1950s and tells the story of teenage twins Lenny and Miriam. The Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group’s Summer Reads
Summer has sadly come to an end and so we thought we would take the opportunity to find out what our members have been reading over the last couple of months. Whether it was the latest bestseller, a weighty tome Read More …
GEH Wellbeing reading group review of What July Knew by Emily Koch
We’d saved What July Knew by Emily Koch to read in July with our wellbeing reading group. Purely because of the name! Our readers enjoyed this book for the most part. There were some parts that were difficult to read, Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
Our read this month was The Tobacconist, written by Robert Seethaler in 2014 and recently translated from the German by Charlotte Collins. It is the story of Franz, a teenager from a small village in the Austrian lakes who moves Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The book choice for July was the fascinating The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. This tale, partly based on real events, follows the fictional Esme Nicholl and the very real creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. So far, Read More …
GEH Kindness book giveaway
The Wellbeing Reading Team at George Eliot were thrilled to receive some books from a publisher, and decided the time was right for a kindness giveaway. We asked our fantastic colleagues at GEH to nominate a member of staff who Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
where to begin with this experimental, award-winning piece of literature? a kaleidoscopic celebration of diversity with plenty to provoke discussion twelve characters from different generations, with wildly contrasting backgrounds and experiences, whose lives intertwine, converging on the performance of a Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Good People by Hannah Kent
This month’s GEH reading group meeting was full to the brim with discussion, opinions, emotions and history! We read The Good People by Hannah Kent, and as ever with our group, it evoked a mixed reaction from our readers. The Read More …