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.

October 2025

Monday 13th October at 6 pm
Melvyn Bragg
Grace and Mary
Paperback £8.99
(Book Club price - reduced from £9.99
Reaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited women: Grace, a farm labourer's daughter who fatefully followed her heart, and Mary, the child she was forced to give up. Unsung heroines according to Mary's son who, as his elderly mother's mind begins to fail, lovingly recreates their lives and the vanished country of their pasts, linking three generations in a chain of enduring love, loss and courage.
Thank you to Peter Roberts, who will be leading the discussion.

November 2025

Monday 10h November at 6 pm
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
Paperback, £8.99 (bookclub price)
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025
A compelling tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement.
It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep

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