Category Archives: Book Clubs

Book Club 2

Book Club 2 usually meets on the 4th Monday of the month at 7pm.

The next meeting is on  Monday 23rd March

This month the book is Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi

The struggles of three women – a child, a school-teacher and an elderly woman about to be widowed – intertwine in this award-winning crime thriller which takes place over 13 days and whose ending, according to the cover testimonial delivers “one of the most reverberating shocks in modern crime fiction”.

If you wish to join our book club please contact us on 0161 747 7442 or email books@urmston-bookshop.co.uk  or call into the shop, we would love to meet you!

Book Club 1

Book Club 1 meets on the 2nd Monday of the month at 7pm.

The next meeting will be  9th March 2020

The book is: Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Blood & Sugar by [Shepherd-Robinson, Laura]

Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor.

June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark.

Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham – a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career – is visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother, passionate abolitionist Tad Archer, had been about to expose a secret that he believed could cause irreparable damage to the British slaving industry.  He’d said people were trying to kill him, and now he is missing . .

If you wish to join our book club please contact us on 0161 747 7442 or email books@urmston-bookshop.co.uk  or call into the shop, we would love to meet you!

Daytime Book Club

The daytime book club meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 10.30am.

The next meeting will be 12th March 2020

The book is: Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton

Image for Now You See Me : Lacey Flint Series, Book 1

One night after interviewing a reluctant witness at a London apartment complex, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before in the building’s darkened parking lot. Within twenty-four hours a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper’s first murder—a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it’s real, and they have a killer bent on re-creating London’s bloody past, history shows they have just five days until the next attempt…

If you wish to join our book club please contact us on 0161 747 7442 or email books@urmston-bookshop.co.uk  or call into the shop – we would love to meet you!