Our relaxed and friendly Book Club meets several times a year for parents to connect and share their love of reading, and new members are always welcome!

We’d love you to join us at our next meeting, taking place on Wednesday 25th October at 7.30pm in the College library, when we will be discussing Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of a powerful Japanese businessman. It is a perfect evening – until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different…

The novel was recently picked by Samantha Bond as her book of choice for BBC Two’s Between the Covers, hailing it as a “beautifully written book […] about trust, intrigue, romance, and two groups of people; the people who are keeping them hostage and the hostages themselves and how their relationships develop. It’s absolutely magical.”