We currently run eleven adult book clubs across our two bookshops, all hosted by booksellers. Six book clubs meet in Oswestry and five in Bridgnorth.
For children and young people we run book clubs in Oswestry for those aged 7+, 9+, 11+ and 13+.
You can see what book each book club is currently reading below. For further information on any of the book clubs, please call in at the shops, send us an email or give us a call.
‘As the Enlightenment dawns, Hannah Sentance finds herself increasingly disturbed by her husband Walter’s unyielding desire to transform the land around their estate into an elite Gentleman’s Park. Local people will be evicted, an old way of life...
I was in the corner shop buying a comic. Dad was waiting outside. I’d just given my money to Mr Norman, the shop owner, when it happened. Mr Norman’s head exploded. Something VERY WEIRD is going on in Cleeby. All the grown-ups are acting strangely. Sandy and his...
‘An elegant, dreamy tale steeped in folklore’ – Irish Times on Nettle A dark, captivating 12+/YA tale of deception and survival, set in the Realm of Never Moon where faeries live in fear of the Owl King, for fans of Holly Black’s The Folk of...
A stunning new voice in YA, exploring grief and loneliness. Perfect for fans of Kathleen Glasgow and John Green. ‘This wasn’t my phone. This was real. Tom had died today, literally died, and here I was, picking through the digital carrion like some sort of...
Exiled daughter, abandoned wife, vengeful mother. But is that where the truth lies? This is the story of Medea as you’ve never heard it before. Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, and if Jason ever reaches the...
When Emmy Miura falls asleep reading a newly purchased romance novel (after her visit to a sex psychic her sister swears by), the last thing she expects is to wake up in the protagonist’s bed the next morning. Emmy doesn’t want to disrupt Will...
Life on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger’s arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer’s future hanging in the balance. It’s no ordinary existence on the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga. The...
In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead . . . Jet has always been restless, never quite finishing anything. Later, she tells herself. She’s got time. Until one night, she is violently attacked. Doctors tell her she’s received a catastrophic brain injury. Inside a week,...
Day of the Triffids meets Little Shop of Horrors in this smart, charming, harrowing alien invasion story about being human, by a Hugo-award winning author. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an...
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world’s largest seed bank. As Shearwater risks being lost...
Prepare for one hell of a journey… Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make...
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world’s largest seed bank. As Shearwater risks being lost...
Provence, 1920. Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible. Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the...
When Second World War bombs start falling, twelve-year-old Eilidh Flett is evacuated to a place she’s never heard of, to live with family she’s never met. Stuck on a remote Orkney island, Eilidh’s aunt gives her just two rules: don’t touch...