Bishopston Not a Book Group
Calendar
- April 25
The Choosing
on 3 Apr 2025 at James 22 The Yard BS2 9YR's
- March 25
'The Essential Beginners Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness' by Rohini Heedeniya
2023 pp132 (experience)
on 6 Mar 2025 at Hugh's
- February 25
'Why We Sleep' by Matthew Walker 2018 pp368
on 6 Feb 2025 at Steven's
- January 25
'Metaphors we live By' by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson 1980 pp237
on 7 Jan 2025 at Chris's
- December 24
'A nice cup of tea' essay by George Orwell 1946 (non-fiction/experience)
on 5 Dec 2024 at Ian's
- November 24
'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Philip K. Dick ,1968 , 197pp
(fiction)
on 7 Nov 2024 at Simon's
- October 24
'The Wager by David Grann', 2023 257pp (story-telling)
on 3 Oct 2024 at Mark's
- September 24
'Empireland :How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain ' by Sathnam Sangheera 2021
320pp (non-fiction)
on 12 Sep 2024 at Eddie's
- August 24
'Politics on the edge' by Rory Stewart, 2023 417pp (non-fiction)
on 8 Aug 2024 at JohnD's
- July 24
'The F*ck It List' by John Niven. 220 pp256 (fiction)
on 4 Jul 2024 at RichardH's
- June 24
Cooperation in Evolution
on 6 Jun 2024 at JohnMc's
- May 24
The Rashmon Effect 'An Incident of the Fingerpost' by Ian Pears 1997 pp700
(fiction)
on 9 May 2024 at Simon's
- April 24
The Choosing
on 4 Apr 2024 at James 22 The Yard BS2 9YR's
- March 24
The Honeywood File: An Adventure in Building by HB Cresswell (1929) (fiction)
pp200
on 7 Mar 2024 at Simon's
- February 24
The phenomena of GPT
on 1 Feb 2024 at Chris's
- January 24
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (2022) ~400 pages
on 11 Jan 2024 at JohnD's
- December 23
Taste-My life through food by Stanley Tucci (2022) pp 320 - non fiction
on 7 Dec 2023 at RichardH's
- November 23
How to Read Paintings by Christopher P Jones (2020) pp80
on 2 Nov 2023 at Simon's
- October 23
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd (2003) 216pp
on 5 Oct 2023 at Will's
- September 23
The Fear Index by Robert Harris (2012)
on 10 Sep 2023 at Mark's
- August 23
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and
Particularly Prosperous by Joe Henrich (2021) pp 704
on 3 Aug 2023 at JohnMc's
- July 23
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (1996) pp 228 - fiction
on 6 Jul 2023 at RichardM's
- June 23
The Rise of the Murdock Dynasty (i-Player)
on 1 Jun 2023 at Ian's
- May 23
The composer/lyricist relationship : bring along your own choice of a piece of
music.
on 6 May 2023 at Steven's
- April 23
The Choosing
on 6 Apr 2023 at James's
- March 23
The Immune System
on 9 Mar 2023 at Chris's
- February 23
British cheese
on 2 Feb 2023 at JohnMc's
- January 23
Cancel culture, freedom of speech or who sets the boundaries
on 5 Jan 2023 at JohnD's
- December 22
Food and Magic
on 8 Dec 2022 at RichardH's
- November 22
Pandemics past, future and imagined
on 3 Nov 2022 at Mark's
- October 22
Civil Disobedience
on 13 Oct 2022 at 19:30 at Steven's
- September 22
Poetry Corner -is there an emerging C21 radical literary modernism?
on 1 Sep 2022 at James's
- August 22
Climate change, archeology, history and oral tradition
on 4 Aug 2022 at Eddie's
- July 22
War and Families
on 7 Jul 2022 at Ian's
- June 22
The Invention of Nature
on 9 Jun 2022 at Will's
- May 22
Politics and Geography
on 5 May 2022 at RichardM's
- April 22
The Choosing
on 7 Apr 2022 at James's
- March 22
Making and the transmission of knowledge
on 3 Mar 2022 at Chris's
- February 22
F1 now and in future
on 3 Feb 2022 at Simon (for Ian)'s
- January 22
Emotional damage in childhood and its consequences
on 6 Jan 2022 at Steve's
- December 21
The Science of Food
on 2 Dec 2021 at John Mac's
- November 21
Loss and Shakespeare
on 4 Nov 2021 at James (for Mark)'s
- October 21
Dirt
on 7 Oct 2021 at Hugh's
- September 21
Colonisation and its effect on both the settlers and the displaced
on 9 Sep 2021 at Simon's
- August 21
Why does Bristol keep Rioting ?
on 5 Aug 2021 at Ian's
- July 21
Antiquities: whose are they,where and when displayed
on 8 Jul 2021 at John D's
- June 21
The Myth of the Labyrinth : Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke
on 3 Jun 2021 at Zoom by Mark's
- May 21
Masculinity in crisis?
on 6 May 2021 at Zoom by James's
- April 21
The Choosing
on 1 Apr 2021 at Zoom's
- March 21
Deep Time
on 4 Mar 2021 at Chris by Zoom's
- February 21
Decisions, decisions : Free Will
on 4 Feb 2021 at Zoom at Steve's
- January 21
Dominic Cummings
on 7 Jan 2021 at Will by Zoom's
- December 20
The Origins of the British
on 3 Dec 2020 at Simon by Zoom's
- November 20
Staziland
on 5 Nov 2020 at Steve's
- October 20
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
on 1 Oct 2020 at Richard H's
- September 20
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
on 3 Sep 2020 at John D's
- August 20
Donut Economics
on 6 Aug 2020 at Zoom with Hugh's
- July 20
PG Woodhouse
on 2 Jul 2020 at via Zoom at Ian's
- June 20
Your favourite childhood book
on 4 Jun 2020 at Chris - via Zoom's
- May 20
The Choosing
on 7 May 2020 at James's
- April 20
World Book Night
on 23 Apr 2020 at Bishopston Library's
- April 20
Drugs
on 16 Apr 2020 at Simon - Zoom's
- March 20
Gloucester Road
on 5 Mar 2020 at Will's
- February 20
Engineering
on 6 Feb 2020 at Steve's
- January 20
Wilding and Food
on 9 Jan 2020 at John Mc 's
- December 19
American Supper
on 5 Dec 2019 at Richard I's
- November 19
Man and Nature
on 14 Nov 2019 at John D moved from September's
- November 19
The Gasheads
on 13 Nov 2019 at Ian's
- October 19
Reduce,Repair,Reuse,Recycle - Reflect
on 3 Oct 2019 at Chris's
- August 19
Trevor Noah
on 1 Aug 2019 at Eddie's
- July 19
Canterbury Tales
on 4 Jul 2019 at Richard II's
- June 19
Nein!
on 6 Jun 2019 at Mark's
- May 19
The Great Choosing
on 2 May 2019 to be located
- April 19
Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
on 4 Apr 2019 at Mark's
- March 19
Time
on 7 Mar 2019 at John Mc's
- February 19
David Grossman
on 7 Feb 2019 at Chris's
- January 19
Michael Lewis - The Undoing Project
on 10 Jan 2019 at Ian's
- December 18
Frankenstein
on 6 Dec 2018 at Will's
- November 18
Oppenheimer and the Bomb
on 1 Nov 2018 at James's
- October 18
Life off the grid
on 11 Oct 2018 at Steve's
- September 18
Poetry Please
on 6 Sep 2018 at Eddie's
- July 18
NHS
on 5 Jul 2018 at Richard H's
- June 18
Otopias, Disutopias and the Huxley clan
on 7 Jun 2018 at Ian's
- May 18
The Great Choosing
on 3 May 2018 to be located
- April 18
AI and the Rise of Robots
on 5 Apr 2018 at John Mc's
- March 18
Irish Unification
on 1 Mar 2018 at Will's
- February 18
The ethics of Genetically Engineered Food
on 1 Feb 2018 at John D's
- January 18
Turkey and Orhan Pamuk
on 4 Jan 2018 at Chris's
- December 17
Summer of Love - 50 years on
on 7 Dec 2017 at Simon's
- November 17
China
on 2 Nov 2017 at Charles's
- October 17
Frank Lloyd Wright
on 5 Oct 2017 at James's
- September 17
The Noise of Time
on 5 Sep 2017 at Richard H's
- July 17
The Age of Genius
on 6 Jul 2017 at Mark's
- June 17
Cheese and favourite advert
on 1 Jun 2017 at Ian's
- May 17
The Choosing
on 4 May 2017 at James's
- April 17
The Post-nuclear world
on 13 Apr 2017 at Richard's
- March 17
Futurology
on 2 Mar 2017 at Chris's
- February 17
Pixar
on 9 Feb 2017 at Ian's
- January 17
Burns supper, whisky and Rosseau
on 12 Jan 2017 at Steve's
- December 16
My Favourite Shakespeare
on 1 Dec 2016 at Will's
- November 16
Trump and post-factual
on 3 Nov 2016 at John D's
- October 16
Being Mortal
on 6 Oct 2016 at Eddy's
- September 16
Palestinian Food and Politics
on 8 Sep 2016 at Steve's
- July 16
Tony Blair
on 7 Jul 2016 at Charles's
- June 16
Persepolis
on 2 Jun 2016 at James's
- May 16
Choosing
on 5 May 2016 at Eddy's
- April 16
Schubert
on 7 Apr 2016 at John M's
- March 16
Shipping
on 3 Mar 2016 at Chris's
- February 16
Lindsay Anderson
on 4 Feb 2016 at Mark's
- January 16
Nudge
on 7 Jan 2016 at Will's
- December 15
The Sea
on 10 Dec 2015 at Steve's
- November 15
Ian Fleming
on 5 Nov 2015 at Richard's
- October 15
Religion and Science
on 1 Oct 2015 at John D's
- September 15
Wild Booze
on 3 Sep 2015 at Ian's
- July 15
The Choosing
on 2 Jul 2015 at Mark's
- June 15
"Can we have our balls back please!? .. how the British invented Sport and then
almost forgot how to play it" by Julian Norridge
on 4 Jun 2015 at Ian's
- May 15
What has Europe ever done for us?
on 7 May 2015 at John D's
- April 15
Ulysses by James Joyce
on 9 Apr 2015 at Mark's
- March 15
Evolution
on 5 Mar 2015 at John's
- February 15
"How to be a Husband" by Tim Dowling
on 4 Feb 2015 at Will's
- January 15
Our favourite poems
on 8 Jan 2015 at Hugh's
- December 14
The origins of World War I
on 4 Dec 2014 at Mark's
- November 14
on 2 Nov 2014 at Watershed's
- October 14
"Colour : Travels through the Paintbox" by Victoria Findlay
on 2 Oct 2014 at James's
- September 14
Visit to the Severn Bore and supper
on 10 Sep 2014 at Epney's
- August 14
The Choosing
on 4 Aug 2014 at TBD's
- July 14
The USA. Is it already an eclipsed superpower?
on 3 Jul 2014 at TBD's
- June 14
What did the Victorians ever do for Bristol?
on 5 Jun 2014 at Hugh's
- May 14
Quantum Theory
on 1 May 2014 at James's
- April 14
Conceptions of Afghanistan
on 10 Apr 2014 at Eddy's
- March 14
Michael Sandel - What money cannot buy : The moral limits of markets
on 6 Mar 2014 at Will's
- February 14
Humour
on 13 Feb 2014 at Steve's
- January 14
Scottish theme
on 2 Jan 2014 at Charles's
- December 13
Chilean wine and favourite desserts
on 5 Dec 2013 at Ian's
- November 13
Explanations and Beauty
on 7 Nov 2013 at Chris's
- October 13
Contemporary Art
on 3 Oct 2013 at Richard's
- September 13
Indecent Exposure, Riotous Assembly
on 1 Sep 2013 at John D's
- July 13
choosing
on 1 Jul 2013 to be located
- June 13
End of the Commonwealth
on 1 Jun 2013 to be located
- May 13
Pessimism and the Power of Negative Thinking
on 1 May 2013 at Will's
- April 13
on 1 Apr 2013 to be located
- March 13
Carl Jung
on 1 Mar 2013 to be located
- February 13
Person/idea which influenced me
on 1 Feb 2013 at Steve's
- January 13
on 1 Jan 2013 to be located
- December 12
China
on 1 Dec 2012 to be located
- November 12
Thomas Cromwell
on 1 Nov 2012 at Mark's
- October 12
Civilisation
on 1 Oct 2012 at Richard's
- September 12
The Crash
on 1 Sep 2012 to be located
- July 12
choosing
on 1 Jul 2012 at Eddy's
- June 12
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
on 1 Jun 2012 at Mike's
- May 12
Mars Trilogy
on 1 May 2012 at Mark's
- April 12
Odyssey
on 1 Apr 2012 at James's
- March 12
Social Injustice
on 1 Mar 2012 to be located
- February 12
Wilful Blindness
on 1 Feb 2012 at Will's
- January 12
Romancing the Robot
on 1 Jan 2012 at Ian's
- December 11
Gormanghast
on 1 Dec 2011 at Richard's
- November 11
Biography of Rear Admiral Place VC
on 3 Nov 2011 at Charles's
- October 11
Desert Island Disk
on 6 Oct 2011 at Steve's
- September 11
A Prayer for Owen Meanie
on 1 Sep 2011 at Hugh's
- July 11
choosing
on 1 Jul 2011 to be located
- June 11
Brideshead Revisited
on 1 Jun 2011 at Ian's
- May 11
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
on 1 May 2011 at James's
- April 11
Ways of Seeing
on 1 Apr 2011 at Charles's
- March 11
Who We Are
on 1 Mar 2011 to be located
- February 11
4 Lions
on 2 Feb 2011 at Chris's
- June 10
choosing
on 2 Jun 2010 at Ian's
- May 10
Last Tango in Aberystwyth
on 3 May 2010 at Chris's
- April 10
Short History of Progress
on 8 Apr 2010 at Will's
- March 10
Concilliance
on 3 Mar 2010 at Mike's
- February 10
Fire and Steam – A new history of the Railways
on 3 Feb 2010 at Frank's
- January 10
on 6 Jan 2010 at Mark's
- December 09
Spanish Civil War
on 2 Dec 2009 at James's
- November 09
What's wrong with Britain
on 4 Nov 2009 at Charles's
- October 09
Pride and Prejudice
on 2 Oct 2009 at Eddy's
- September 09
The Spy who came in from the Cold
on 2 Sep 2009 at Richard's
- May 09
Reaper Man
on 6 May 2009 at Eddy's
- April 09
Green life
on 1 Apr 2009 at Frank's
- March 09
Gay Cornish writing
on 4 Mar 2009 at Will's
- February 09
Sea voyages
on 4 Feb 2009 at Chris's
- January 09
Deaf Sentence
on 7 Jan 2009 at Ian's
- December 08
No Country for Old Men
on 3 Dec 2008 at Charles's
- November 08
V for Vendetta
on 5 Nov 2008 at Mark's
- October 08
The Warden
on 1 Oct 2008 at Richard's
- May 07
Everying Bad is Good for you
on 1 May 2007 to be located
- January 06
The Magus
on 18 Jan 2006 at Eddy's
- October 05
Kubrick
on 16 Oct 2005 at Mark's
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- Film Chinatown Raymond Chandler
- For whom the bell Tolls Ernest Hemmingway
- Freakonomics Levitt and Dubner
- Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond
- Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
- Karl Marx
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Marco Polo
- Motorcycle diaries
- Norwegian Wood Murakami
- Peak Oil
- Periodic Table Primo Levi
- Solaris Stanislav Lem
- Star Wars
- The History Man
- The full moon club – Erasmus Darwin and chums
- Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas