The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin

The next book meeting will take place on 14^th February (7-8.30pm) and we will be reviewing

The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin. (272 pages)

In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen and come to terms with one another.

Book for January 2011

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrel
Next meeting 17th January at Costa, Nantwich, 7pm - 8.30pm

New Film List for Spring and Summer Term 2011

Impact has produced a full film season for the rest of the academic year, you will find this HERE. However I should point out that the day has changed from Thursday to Wednesday. This has enabled us, in most cases, to see two films a month thus providing a more fulfilling and varied programme.

Book Club Dates Announced

The dates for next spring and summer terms at the book club are now on the Book Club section of this blog here .

White Christmas

Last night the film club was treated mince pies, mulled 'cordial' and a proper festive classic - White Christmas, which was enjoyed by all (even the scrooges).

December's Book

The next book for the book club is The Christmas Train by David Baldacci.




















I'm told by the Nantwich Bookshop that this is currently out of print, but it seems to be available online, with lots of offers of second hand.

The next book club meeting will be on December 20th, 7pm at Costa Nantwich. We will be having a christmassy celebration, so feel free to bring along festive nibbles (we have Brian at Costa's permission) and also a christmas reading if you have a favourite you'd like to share.

Rescheduled Film

The showing of A Single Man has been rescheduled to Wednesday 24^th November at 7.30.

This is one of the previously postponed films.

The film is set in Los Angeles in 1962 and tells the story of George Falconer, a middle-aged English college professor who has struggled to find meaning in his life since the car accident that killed his longtime partner, Jim, eight months earlier. Jim's family disapproved of his relationship with George and thus refused George permission to attend the funeral. It stars Colin Firth in the lead role.

This is a special showing for the Bookworms United book club but all are welcome.

The next meeting of the book club is on Monday night at 7pm in COSTA COFFEE Nantwich.

Next Film

The next film will be Shutter Island (cert 15) on 18th November at 7.30pm.

Film News

The next film will be It’s complicated on Thursday 28^th October, 7.30pm (sound system now fully operational)

Visiting Theatre Company

There will be a performance of a Blood Wedding in Wenslydale on Thursday 21st October at 7.45pm in the drama studio.

The play is presented by North Country Theatre and is billed as Cold Comfort Farm meets Carmen- Lorca’s famous Spanish tale of feuding families, freely adapted and re-set in the farming communities of the Yorkshire Dales. It is presented in conjunction with the Cheshire Rural Arts Touring Network. For more information visit www.northcountrytheatre.com

Tickets are priced at £6 for adults and £4 concessions and can be obtained from the Performing Arts Office on 01270 611 009.

Book Club Book for November

The next book to be read for the 15^th November Book Club meeting is A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks.

Book Club Update

The next book will be Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, to be discussed at our next book club meeting on 18th October, at Costa, Nantwich, 7 - 8.30pm.