Due to Covid it took 2 years to get there but it was so worthwhile when we did. 13 of us braved the cold spring weather, setting off in a FISH minibus last Friday to visit the home of Downton Abbey aka Highclere Castle. Although the outside of the Castle is huge, (we...
This month we read Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey. Wentworth was the largest Georgian house in Britain, with a room for every day of the year and home to generations of the Fitzwilliams. It was surrounded by the South Yorkshire coalmines, the source of the...
We sipped and slurped through six wines and some fizz at our first tasting of 2022. It was a great opportunity to try out wines that we wouldn’t normally buy – from an orange wine from Austria, to a Slovenian Sauv Blanc, Romanian Pinot Noir and...
We were absolutely delighted to welcome Anja de Jager and Victoria Dowd to our March meeting where they talked about their lives as crime writers. They are both successful authors of crime fiction books and they both live in Barnes! Anja is well known for her Lotte...
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri is a sweeping novel, following some 50 years in the life of an Indian family. Growing up in Calcutta, brothers Subhash and Udayan were inseparable, but their lives diverged as they moved on to university. Udayan joined the radical,...
This month we read How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee. The novel is set in Singapore and is told from two different points of view. Firstly, an old lady, Wang Di, with flashbacks to her life as a comfort woman during the Japanese occupation and secondly, Kevin, a...
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