Group Category: Literature & Reading
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Book Reading 1
We meet in members’ houses on the first Thursday of every month. A lively discussion is followed by tea and biscuits and sometimes even home-made cake! Members also discuss other books they have read and films and plays they have seen recently. In the last year, we have read a variety of books, including the Tattooist of… Read more
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Book Reading 2
We started 2025 with a meal at The Anchor and ended it with an Icelandic custom ‘Jolabokaflodid’, a Secret Santa giving a second hand book and a chocolate. We are now back to our maximum 10 members, with one person on the waiting list, but there are other book groups in our U3A. All the… Read more
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Book Reading 3
Book Group 3 has been going strong since 2013! We would like to welcome new members in 2026. We are a small group, and are keen readers, with diverse interests and backgrounds. We have lots of ideas on what we shall read together. We share interest in a variety of modern and classic fiction, non-fiction,… Read more
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Book Reading 4
We are a small, informal group. We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 10.30 am. We take it in turns to host but being unable to do so is no barrier to joining the group. We read fiction including classics, crime novels, contemporary and literary fiction, as well as non-fiction including biographies,… Read more
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Play Reading
Ours is a small informal group who meet on the fourth Monday of the month, from about 2.00pm to 4.45pm. If this falls on a Bank Holiday then that month’s meeting is cancelled. Meetings take place in member’s houses and the host for that month also selects the play to read and provides the tea… Read more
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Poetry Appreciation
We are a small, friendly group who meet monthly to share poems, usually chosen around a theme. We don’t write poetry but respond to it and value it, enjoying being reintroduced to old favourites and hearing new ones. Past themes have included travel, summer, heroes and heroines, childhood, music and many more. We welcome enquiries… Read more
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Reading Aloud
The Group meets in member’s homes each month having previously agreed on either a genre , author or just a single book to read aloud to each other. How much of the subject is read depends on the time and how much members want to share and discuss their views. Occasionally and if an opportunity… Read more