The aldeburgh bookshop Book Club
We meet on the second Monday of the month, in the shop. The Book Club is open to all - so feel free to come along. No prior book club experience necessary.
December 2025
Monday 8th December at 6 pm
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty Four
Paperback £8.99
(Book Club price - reduced from £9.99
January 2026
Monday 12th January at 6 pm
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Paperback, £7.99 (bookclub price)
Virginia Woolf had a complex and evolving opinion of Jane Austen, initially praising her as a "perfect artist" with "impeccable judgment and taste". However, she also critiqued Austen's perceived limitations, noting her novels lacked profound revelations and were confined to a "smug" and "commonplace" world, especially when considering Austen's conservative spirit.
In this novel, her second one, written in 1919, shows Woolf trying her hand at an Austen-like novel exploring the confines of women’s domestic and social realities.
November 2025 The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
October 2025 Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg
September 2025 Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
August 2025 This is Happiness by Niall Williams
July 2025 Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
June 2025 The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
May 2025 James by Percival Everett
April 2025 The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
March 2025 The Last House Before The Mountain by Monika Helfer
February 2025 The Past by Tessa Hadley
January 2025 Orbital by Samantha Harvey