Book Salad

Cross-Genre Reading Group

Welcome to 'Book Salad'!

Meeting on the last Tuesday of every month, our 'Book Salad' group is dedicated to picking up books from different genres and saying, 'Let's try this one'.

This book group is a salad - to make a salad you put together things you'd like to eat that are each different in some way. Instead of reading one kind of book every month, we mix our genres. We read mostly imaginative fiction, occasionally non-fiction, even more occasionally a graphic novel, by authors from different ages and backgrounds.

This group is hosted by David, a specialist in nothing in particular but generally willing to read whatever is in front of him.

For our second book of 2025, we are reading Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller.

A traumatised soldier in search of peace, a nail-biting hunt to the death - the rapturously acclaimed eighth novel from the author of Pure

When Captain John Lacroix returns to England after fighting Napoleon's forces in Spain, he is not the man he was. A survivor of the British arm's infamous retreat to Corunna, he carries with him a shameful secret, one he will travel to the outer reaches of Scotland to forget.

Lacroix's journey to the Hebrides leads to encounters with thieves and free thinkers, to unexpected friendships, even love. But as the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the enemy is creeping closer - unbeknownst to Lacroix, a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer are on his trail. Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a high price.