About us
Please note: if you are an author who receives emails purporting to be from the organisers of this book club (Sarah or Mitch), asking for payment for your book to be featured, or even just informing you your book will be featured, this is likely spam/a scam and has nothing to do with the Brighton Book Club.
Hello and welcome to the Brighton Book Club. This is a group for all bookworms and avid readers, whatever your preferred choice of fiction. We meet on the first Wednesday of every month, in person at a pub in Brighton and Hove, UK.
We select our books by as democratic a process as we can. At any moment in time, we have a longlist, usually of between ten and twenty books. Twice a year, in April and October, this list is wiped clean and any member attending the meeting that month can add a book to the refreshed list if it meets our criteria (widely available in paperback for less than around £10, no more than approx 400 pages, not the second or later volume of a series where you need to read the earlier ones first). A few days before each regular monthly meeting I email the longlist to all active members of the Meetup group, and ask for three votes by email. The 3 or 4 books with most votes by email go forward onto a shortlist, which is then voted on at the end of the meeting to select the book to be discussed two months ahead. Unselected books remain on the longlist.
Upcoming events
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- £1.00
The Brighton Book Club monthly meetup
Freemasons Hove, 38-39 Western Road, Hove, GBThis meeting's book discussion will be about "The Blunderer" by Patricia Highsmith, available from https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blunderer-Virago-Modern-Classic-Classics/dp/0349004528
or from https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Blunderer-Virago-Modern-Classic-Highsmith-Patricia/32297741247/bdor try http://www.kemptownbookshop.co.uk/
or http://www.city-books.co.uk/
or http://www.waterstones.com
(who all have branches in Brighton and Hove for in person shopping as well as online).All being well we will be meeting upstairs at Freemasons on Western Road, near Palmeira Square.
We have gone back to paying subs for Meetup fees. It's £1 per person per meeting, you can pay in cash on the night or by PayPal to paypal.me/BrightonBookClub - please do not select the 'goods and services' option (or do select the 'friends and family' option), to avoid incurring PayPal fees.
We will be refreshing the longlist at this meeting so please come prepared with your choice for the list. The criteria are, roughly: 1) no longer than about 400 pages; 2) widely available in paperback (and, ideally, in e-book format) for less than about £10); 3) not a second or later book in a series (first in a series is fine); 4) if a translation, ideally one with a standard English edition so that we read the same text.
Unfortunately I can't make this meeting but I expect to be leaving you in the capable hands of my co-organiser, Mitch.
Sarah
15 attendees - £1.00
The Brighton Book Club monthly meetup
Freemasons Hove, 38-39 Western Road, Hove, GBThis meeting's book discussion will be about "Still Life" by Sarah Winman, available from https://www.amazon.co.uk/Still-Life-instant-bestseller-Between/dp/0008283397
or from https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Life-instant-Sunday-Times-bestseller-BBC/32326476344/bdOr try https://www.city-books.co.uk or https://www.kemptownbookshop.co.uk/ or https://www.waterstones.com who all have branches in Brighton and Hove for in person shopping as well as online.
All being well we will be meeting upstairs at Freemasons on Western Road, near Palmeira Square, 7:45 for 8pm start.
We have gone back to paying subs for Meetup fees. It's £1 per person per meeting, you can pay in cash on the night or by PayPal to paypal.me/BrightonBookClub - please do not select the 'goods and services' option (or do choose 'friends and family'), to avoid incurring fees.
Hope to see you there,
Sarah7 attendees
Past events
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