The new season of the Hurricane Book Club starts soon and we’re recruiting members for our live studio audience!
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or so, the Hurricane Book Club is the Twitter-based reading group we share with Orkney, Glasgow and Shetland Libraries, all brought together by those nice folks at Pan Macmillan.
Each group meets in person and discusses the book like a regular reading group (sometimes with the real live author right there in the room!), while a fleet-fingered Librarian tweets what the group are saying and shares what the other groups think.
— Hurricane Book Club (@HurricaneBkClub) November 19, 2018
Date and books
All of Falkirk Libraries’ physical group meetings will take place at Larbert Library on the dates below. Everyone who joins the library reading group receives their very own free copy.
Thursday 28 February: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, a truly haunting novel about the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Ieland in 1829
Thursday 25th April: The End We Start From by Megan Hunter in which a new mother navigates a dystopian world
Thursday 27th June: The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal, an intoxicating debut about art, obsession and possession
Get involved
Anyone aged over 16 can join, but you need to commit to attending all the meeting dates, as listed above. If you’d like to join the group that meets in Larbert Library, please email us at falkirklibraries@gmail.com. Places are going fast, so act quickly!
If you can’t join us in person, follow on Twitter:
You can also visit the Hurricane Book Club website for more information.
Check out some of our highlights from 2018
Hello everyone from @LibFalkirk and @danrboothby We are kicking off now with the last #HurricaneBookClub of the 2018 season pic.twitter.com/VnGpK0G94x
— Hurricane Book Club (@HurricaneBkClub) June 28, 2018
We’ve a cracking view over Falkirk to the Ochils and Kelpies, plus strawberries and airconditioning! We’re all set! #HurricaneBookClub pic.twitter.com/B1RQqiyjUq
— Hurricane Book Club (@HurricaneBkClub) June 28, 2018
Frank the lesser known @LibFalkirk Otter is all set to meet @danrboothby for the last @HurricaneBkClub of the season. Join us at 6pm, we have strawberries and chilled juice…. pic.twitter.com/ojzZYQ4lNg
— Hurricane Book Club (@HurricaneBkClub) June 28, 2018
LOVED hearing about this sparkling novel from @mspaulsonellis tonight and I particularly enjoyed the suitcase of things. Lots of clues and childhood memories all mingled into one. Well done @LibFalkirk and #HurricaneBookClub for a splendid #BookWeekScot event. Just the thing! pic.twitter.com/fvvWYwwNes
— Catriona Wallace (@catrionaSBT) November 30, 2017