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 …
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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 …
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 …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
What have an estate agent, a pair of home renovators, two panicky parents-to-be, a bank manager, and a grandmother all got in common? They are all the accidental hostages of a would be bank robber in Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People, Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – Olive, Mabel & Me : Life and adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter
What did you do during Lockdown? Andrew Cotter, a well-known sports commentator whose voice is recognised by people across the world, decided on the spur of the moment to narrate a video he took of his two dogs eating, and Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Midnight Library was our Wellbeing Book Group choice for March. On first glance a novel about a girl committing suicide doesn’t seem like the most obvious choice for a Wellbeing Group. However this is more of an antisuicide novel, Read More …