Book Group

The Holy Name Book Club is open to all members of the community, no matter what their age or religion, who enjoy reading fiction. We meet usually on the last Wednesday in the month, although this can change.  The group meets at 7pm in the Church Hall on Towers Avenue. 

If you wish to join the discussions, please email Fr Campion at welcome@holynamejesmond.co.uk.  And please ensure you have read the book beforehand as the discussion is confined to the book, its plot, characterisation, narrative etc.

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We meet next on Wednesday 28 January to discuss His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Using fictional historical documents, it tells the story of a 17-year-old boy named Roderick “Roddy” Macrae, who commits a triple homicide in the village of Culduie, on the Applecross peninsula, in 1869.  Future selections are Persuasion by Jane Austen, Horse Under Water by Len Deighton, Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn and Between Two Worlds by Olivier Norek.

A surprise inclusion on the Man Booker longlist, it’s a psychological thriller masquerading as a slice of true crime; a collection of “found” documents that play lovingly with the traditions of Scottish literature; an artful portrait of a remote crofting community in the 19th century that showcases contemporary theories about class and criminology. The book is also a blackly funny investigation into madness and motivation, which perhaps leads no further than one character’s grim conclusion: “One man can no more see into the mind of another than he can see inside a stone.” (For the full Guardian review, click here.)