The Insole Court Book Club is a monthly book club that specifically explores a diverse ranges of authors, for those who wants to discover something new. The book club is a friendly and social club, where we can get together to discuss the book (even if you haven’t finished it, life is too short to read a book that you don’t enjoy!) have a cuppa in beautiful surroundings, and meet other readers.
The book club takes place in the Reading Room of Insole Court, Cardiff, CF5 2LN. There is plenty of free parking on site, access for cars and pedestrians is on Fairwater Road. Further details can be found here.
Join us on the last Wednesday of every month, from 7 until 8.30pm.
If you would like to come along or would like more information, please let me know by email: offbeatbookclub@gmail.com
- Wed 24 Sep – Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Wed 29 Oct – Butter by Asako Yuzuki
- Weds 26 Nov – Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
- Weds 17 Dec – Purple Hibiscus by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
- Weds 28 Jan – The Whale Bone Theatre by Joanne Allen
- Weds 25 Feb – The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
- Weds 25 Mar – All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield
- Weds 29 Apr – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
- Weds 27 May – Wild by Cheryl Strayed
If you have any trouble finding the book at all, please let me know and I will source one for you.
Happy reading!
Books read so far, in chronological order:
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Lanny by Max Porter
Hello World by Hannah Fry
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
Skint Estate by Cash Carraway
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Motherwell by Deborah Orr
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
Sway by Pragya Agarwal
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Happy Families by Julie Ma
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghere
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
A Bit of A Stretch by Chris Atkins
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Educated by Tara Westover
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissey
Fake Law by The Secret Barrister
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne De Maurier
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula La Guin
That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Violetta by Isabel Allende
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Stranding by Kate Sawyer
Wintering by Katherine May
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
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