Keeping Cosy at Tea with Tales

Warmed up with a cuppa and cheese scone, we shared where we most would like to go on holiday to escape our recent bout of cold weather.

Our book reading was We Solve Murders by Richard Osman, that author of the Thursday Murder Club series. This is the first in a new series featuring retired Steve Wheeler and his daughter in law, private security officer Amy.

Prolific author Nora Roberts is a hit for one of our members and she particularly enjoyed the thriller Identity. What made it more enjoyable was the excellent narration. 

Daniel Silva’s The Kill Artist was a recommendation from a previous book club and this thriller had our member looking forward to reading the next in this three-part series. The group discussed how the theme of the book, the Israeli/Palestine conflict, is still in the news today, 25 years after the release of this book.

In the fifth book in Kerry Greenwood’s Corrina Chapman series, Forbidden Fruit, Daniel and Corrina tackle a sinister religious cult.

Local authors, Louise and Gareth Ward’s Tea and Cake and Death is the second book in their Bookshop Detectives series. Bookshop owners and amateur sleuths Eloise and Garth are on the case of a prolific poisoner.

The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour has been read by a few readers and they have all thoroughly enjoyed it. This New Zealand story told to Jude Dobson reveals the untold story of Latour’s life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines.

Alan Moorehead was a war correspondent who won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East, Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. In African Trilogy, The North African Campaign, 1940-43, Moorehead’s interviews with various generals tell a fascinating story of the campaigns.

Ruth Shaw, another New Zealand author, this time from the far south, has three books to her credit. Her first, The Bookseller at the End of the World, is her memoir which includes her life owning two bookshops in Manapouri.

We finished with a lively discussion on Prince Harry’s biography, Spare. The keen royalists in the room were split on whether the book should have spilled all the royal family’s secrets and whether it was a good read.

Tea with Tales is a book club for the vision impaired and meets on the first Monday of the month.

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