Book clubs in Dunbar

Below you'll find every active listing we have for book clubs and readers in Dunbar

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Whisky John

I live in East Lothian, and I have experience of working in Local Government, advertising and the Scotch Whisky industry. I like detective novels, esp. Nordic Noir or translated character novels (e.g Maigret, Montalbano), Cold War and other “period specific” stuff. I recently finished work, possibly for the last time, giving me a bit more time for reading and walking.

Whisky John recommends:

Winter by Len Deighton
Winter
by Len Deighton | Buy this book
What I love about this book is its epic scale, telling the story of the Winter family in Germany from the turn of 20th Century, up until 1945. Harold Winter is a businessman with two sons, each of whom becomes a lawyer. One becomes part of the Nazi “machine”, dreaming up legal justification for their actions, whilst the other emigrates to their mother’s American homeland, becomes vigorously opposed to Nazi ideology, and returns to Germany as a prosecutor in the Nuremberg War Crimes trials. The book is something of a prequel to Deighton’s “Game, Set and Match” trilogy, which eventually became part of a nine novel trilogy of trilogies! Several characters (or their forebears) from these novels appear in Winter, which gives the reader much broader historical context. For me Winter, and its successor novels, provides a fascinating historical perspective of life in Berlin in the first half of the 20th Century, its influence on the conduct of the Cold War, and an interesting commentary on people from working class backgrounds workung alongside their Oxbridge educated counterparts in the British Secret Service, a theme that runs through other Deighton books like The Ipcress File.
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BookEnd

All sorts of well written literature.

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Isobel

I like reading modern literary fiction and I'd like to meet around once a month.

Isobel recommends:

The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
The Mandibles
by Lionel Shriver | Buy this book
Slightly futuristic but not too silly, and a cracking plot
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Marilyn Ferguson Vallely

I am an author living in East Lothian with two moderately successful books out on Amazon in paperback and kindle. They are All My Big Fat Scottish Weddings and More Big Fat Scottish Weddings. My profile can be checked on Google. I would love to guest at a meeting of your group and talk about my books. My tel is 07577 065651. Thank you

Marilyn Ferguson Vallely recommends:

All My Big Fat Scottish Weddings  by Marilyn Ferguson Vallely
All My Big Fat Scottish Weddings
by Marilyn Ferguson Vallely | Buy this book
It is well written by a Scottish journalist/ book editor who, in her spare moments, created a wedding business empire - from her spare bedroom. The period was one of enormous change from 1971 to 2012 and the thousands of weddings during that period reflected Scottish life after joining Europe. Mainly the books are funny and character-filled- good reads!
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Books and cooks club

A quarterly book club that meets in person. We have a book club with dinner and drinks - all matched to the country that the book is set in!

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