Monthly Book Groups
Booker Book Group Challenge
Each year, members of the Woodbridge Book Group agree to read one of the Booker Prize Longlisted titles and report back with a review. As a group we then make our own prediction of what should be included on the subsequent Shortlist and ultimately which novel should be the winner of the prize overall. Read our conclusions for 2026 here.
Woodbridge Book Group
Each month I host an open meeting in Woodbridge in Suffolk. We used to meet in the town's bookshop but now gather together in a nearby hall. We usually focus on modern fiction and the discussion regularly attracts around 20 people, men and women, of all ages. Everyone is welcome to join in but please let me know you are planning on coming along. Sign up to the e-newsletter here to receive details. Scroll down to take a look at the titles we've read over the year, and view the archive for past discussions.
I also co-host a Book Group in Framlingham at Ottie and the Bea - details here
Woodbridge Book Group List for 2026
A novel about loneliness, love, labour and class, which 'subverts the comforting mundane' as it chronicles the immigrant experience in a nail bar, during a single day. Said to be funny, moving and 'hauntingly good'. What will we think of it?
Described as 'an unforgettable novel about how we carry each other through good and bad times, and how even the most ordinary life is, in its own way, quite extraordinary'. What will we think?
Described as 'a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shake-downs and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s', this two-time Pulitzer winner is praised by novelist Ann Patchett for his 'extraordinary writing'. What will we think?
Said to be 'a beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty', which presents 'the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control'. It is soon to be a BBC drama. What will we make of it?
A tale of a small coastal community in Ireland, during lockdown, it's described as kind, funny and wise with 'plenty to say about compassion, community and the power of cold water'. What will we think of it?
