Reading
Come and join the
EuroMayenne Reading Group
We share a love of books !
The current selection of books to read for 2025/26 has now come to an end.
A new selection for 2026/27 is shown below, which will run from September 2026.
NEXT MEETING:
WEDNESDAY 30 September 2026 at 2.30 p.m.
Venue: at a EuroMayenne Member’s house
in Evron (Contact Pam Davies, details below)
This EuroMayenne group is for members to get together each month to discuss a book that they have all just read.
It will encourage you to read more books and books that you might not normally choose.
The reasons that people give for joining a reading group include reading a wide variety of books, making friends, having fun, meeting like-minded people and stimulating the brain cells!
So please come and join us for our nineth year in this venture.
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When
Monthly on the last Wednesday at 2.30 p.m.
Please let Pam know (contact details at the bottom of this page) at least one week in advance if you will be going.
So, make notes in your diary for
Book titles – see table below.
These are to be across a wide range of genres including general fiction, mysteries, historical fiction and non-fiction. They are always available in English and French versions. They allow for discussion between both English and French speakers.
Future books to read are decided by the group members.
2026/27
| Month | Title | Author | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2026 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’ George Orwell’s renowned fable and satirical portrait of politics became an instant success upon its publication after the Second World War. The novel has continued to captivate readers of all ages, and has secured Orwell’s position as one of the great writers of the twentieth century. |
| 28 October | Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann | In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil that was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. |
| 25 November | Perspectives | Laurent Binet | Florence,1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we’ve never seen it before – a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art. |
| December | No meeting | – | – |
| 27 January 2027 | The Art of Losing | Alice Zeniter | Naïma has always known that her father’s family were from Algeria – but up until now, that has meant very little to her. Spanning three generations across seventy years, The Art of Losing tells the story of how people carry on in the face of loss – the loss of a country, an identity, a way to speak to your children – a story of colonisation and immigration, and how we are a product of the things we have left behind. |
| 24 February | Watching Over Her | Jean-Baptiste Andrea | In an Italian monastery, an infamous sculptor lies on his death bed. During Mimo’s final hours, he reveals his life story: his impoverished childhood, his unlikely rise to fame and most importantly, his meeting with Viola, the daughter of a powerful aristocratic family. |
| 31 March | When God was a Rabbit | Sarah Winman | This is a book about a brother and sister. It is a book about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy – and everything in between. More than anything it is a book about love in all its forms. |
| 28 April | The Reader | Bernard Schlink | For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. ‘A tender, horrifying novel that shows blazingly well how the Holocaust should be dealt with in fiction.’ |
| 26 May | Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D H Lawrence | Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a ground-breaking novel that explores the emotional and physical relationship between Lady Constance Chatterley and her husband’s gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The novel delves into themes of class struggle, sexual liberation, and the search for authentic human connection. |
| 30 June | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, the novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. |
| July | No meeting | – | – |
| August | No meeting | – | – |
Where
At the home of a member in Evron
Contact Pam Davies for details (see below)
Cost
There will be no cost other than the member purchasing/downloading the book of the month.
Refreshments (tea/coffee/cakes) will always be available – all that is asked is for a small donation.
Interested ?
Contact the reading group:
| Pam DAVIES | 02.43.00.87.17 | contact@euromayenne.org |
