W Somerset Maugham - titles for March.

The Casuarina Tree.

Ashenden.

The Explorer.

Of Human Bondage.

The Magician.

Mrs Craddock.

The Christmas Holiday.

Cakes and Ale.

The Creatures of Circumstance. 

The Painted Veil.

Up at the Villa.

Short Stories - a number of volumes.

W Somerset Maugham

March saw the book group read a variety of novels & short stories by W Somerset Maugham. Spending his early years in Paris, losing his mother at an early age, being sent to boarding school in England, developing a stammer that would affect him for most of his life and completing a medical degree (although never practising medicine) shaped his writings and gave him much information to use in his works. He was a world traveller, especially around the Pacific between the wars.Many of his acute observations of people, set against the background of the last days of Imperialism & colonial India, became features in his books.
The group, as usual, had  a wide variety of views regarding his writings. Some thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions, details & themes whereas others thought his works were dreary, slow and lacking plot.
All the different opinions expressed meant the meeting was lively and fun.

April is Crime Fiction month for the Third Thursday Book Club

Come along to our next meeting on Thursday 17th March to collect your copy of 'The Suspect' by Michael Robotham or choose from a selection of Kerry Greenwood' s Phryne Fisher mysteries.

In March we will be discussing the work of W. Somerset Maugham. All new members are welcome. Either come along and join in the discussion about this author, or just come along and hear what others have to say.