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.
July 2026
Monday 13th July at 6 pm
Marcia Hutchinson
The Mercy Step
Paperback £9.99
(Book Club price - reduced from £10.99)
A sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl's quiet rebellion and her refusal to be broken. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026. Winner of the British Book Award - Discover Prize 'Dark, humorous, and passionately captures the unique realities of the northern Black experience' set in Bradford in the 1960s
June 2026
Monday 8th June at 6 pm
Jane Austen, Sanditon. Paperback, £4.99
Jane Austen expert, Kate Drayton, will join us to discuss Jane’s last unfinished novel, Sanditon. It’s a tantalising fragment of twelve chapters satirising the wellness industry. Kate is taught 18th and 19th century literature at UEA, where she is currently Honorary Lecturer and Senior Adviser.
May 2026 Flesh by David Szalay
April 2026 Theory and Practice Michelle de Kretser
March 2026 The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
February 2026 The Ferryman and his Wife by Frode Grytten
January 2026 Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
December 2025. 1984 by George Orwell
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