Are you intrigued by the meaning and origin of words and idioms in English, particularly the less familiar or quirky ones? If so, you may be interested in joining this  group which started in July 2024.  We meet on the third Monday afternoon of each month  for an hour and a half in central Bath,… Read more

Are you intrigued by the meaning and origin of words and idioms in English, particularly the less familiar or quirky ones? If so, you may like to join this group which started in July 2024. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month for an hour and a half in central Bath, to share and… Read more

We are a friendly group of 8 members and our reading is mainly contemporary fiction, although we have included some works of non-fiction, and older books which are personal favourites. We take turns to choose the book for discussion each month and to host the meeting, when the host provides tea and coffee and a… Read more

We’ve been meeting now for about 5 years, a relaxed sociable group with a common interest in writing about our lives or indeed the lives of our relatives and friends.  Occasionally we will have a short (10 mins) writing session at the start of our session but more usually we simply take it in turns to… Read more

In 2020 we re-confirmed a decision taken some years earlier to confine our book choices to novels published from the year 2000 onwards and available in paperback. Each year members introduce a book of their own choosing to the rest of the group, their presentations forming the basis for the subsequent, often very lively, discussions.… Read more

We are a mixed group of up to about a dozen members which would benefit from more male voices. No previous acting experience is necessary just an ability to sight read and an appreciation of the language written for stage performance. We read a wide variety of plays - Ayckbourn, Bolt, Coward, Durbridge - swapping… Read more

This Play Reading group started in September 2022. Our choices are based on the suggestions which all the members are invited to make. So we cover a wide range of plays by well-known, mostly 20th century writers. There is no need for any special acting ability -  just an enjoyment of plays and an interest in… Read more

We are a small group of poetry enthusiasts who meet fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons at Manvers Street Baptist Church to read and discuss poetry. We take it in turns to present one or two consecutive sessions on a particular poet or theme, so each member's turn comes around approximately once a year.  New members are… Read more

Shakespeare and Friends is a friendly discussion group which considers the plays and other works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. English theatre in Elizabethan and Jacobean times saw one of history's greatest ever explosions of creative talent. William Shakespeare, the giant of world literature, was far from alone. There were many others, from Thomas Kyd… Read more

The "Short Novels" reading group 1 is a friendly discussion group which considers short works of fiction which could be read in one to three sittings. Definitions are not always precise and the boundaries may be hazy between short novels, novellas and longer works but our focus is on a discrete work of fiction which… Read more