T This week, why not support The Mill by becoming a Friend, or buying tickets for the annual Quiz taking place on Friday 28th March.(available at reception for £5 including drink and brain food!). On Monday, a special event is taking place at The Mill: Low Cost Living for Life 10am -2pm, a FREE event […]
Book Club
FollowThe London Children’s Book Swap – Saturday 15th February
Saturday 15th February 10.30-4.30: The London Children’s Book Swap Bring an old book to The Mill, your local Children’s Book Swap venue and pick up a new book to take home for FREE. Add your comments to the Giant Mill Scrap Book! ‘London Children’s Book Swap is a great way to renew your library and […]
Book Club – Dates for your diary
Have you made a New Year’s Resolution to read more books? Come and join The Mill’s thriving Book Club. We’ll be reading and discussing the following: Jan 15th at 7pm: Candide – Voltaire Feb 19th at 7pm: Regeneration – Pat Baker March 19th at 7pm: The Hare With Amber Eyes – Edmund De Waal
Join the Mill’s book club
Our book club has announced it’s next meeting dates – all are welcome if you want to join. At August’s book club session at The Mill, we discussed Sylvia Plath’s The Bel Jar, alongside Ted Hughes’ The Birthday Letters. With The Bell Jar, It was a trip down memory lane for many of our members, […]
Mill Book Club – August 21
In this month’s book club session at The Mill, we discussed Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, alongside Ted Hughes’ The Birthday Letters. With The Bell Jar, It was a trip down memory lane for many of our members, who read the text when they were growing up. For others, it was a book they had heard about, but […]
June’s book club a pause for thought
At June’s book club we discussed The Man Who Broke Into by Denis Avey with Rob Broomby It was a deep and thoughtful text which had us not only discussing the nature of war material, but of biographies as a whole. This was the first book club’s biography and it was certainly a baptism of […]
Mill Book Club – Tue 26th June
This month’s book club, saw another good turnout with members braving the rain to discuss The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. Many of the members came with their own expectations of the book, having either watched the film at the cinema or seen the play at the theatre. We were impressed with the way […]
Mill Book Club – Tuesday 15th May
In last month’s book club, we discussed The Tortilla Curtain by T.C Boyle. The novel covered many themes including immigration, capitalism, racism, alienation and belonging. Some thought that the novel was far too simplistic, providing only exaggerated characters for its own purpose. However, after much discussion we could pick out certain aspects of these characters […]
Mill Book Club – April 17th
In this month’s book club we discussed Magnus Mills’, The Maintenance of Headway, a thought provoking portrayal of the lives of bus drivers. Members noted the way in which Mills seemed to elevate the mundane and loved his use of humour and hyperbole. Some enjoyed the simplicity of Mills’ writing, whilst others noted how parts of the text were self-consciously complex. We agreed that […]
Book Club – March
February’s book club meeting was another great success with a solid turn out and even another new addition to the group! Maurice by E.M Forster was up for discussion this month and was enjoyed by the overwhelming majority. Some did not quite take to the language like others did whilst most saw it as a […]