Book Club
Book Club is taking a broadcasting break but you can still hear us every other Saturday  at 10am on Culture Club
Hi, I'm Sian and I love to read!
Join me for poetry, short stories, serialised books, interviews and for our Book Group where I discuss recommended reads with special guests

Book group

Fiona, Kathy and I love to talk about books!  Join our radio book group and let us know what you think.
Check out our live show - Cotswolds Radio Culture Club, every other Saturday at 10am.
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Fiona Mountain
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Kathy Ellison
PREVIOUSLY ON BOOK GROUP

Guests

DAVID WORLOCK 
A small Cotswold farm is the setting for a classic struggle of wills. Robert Worlock, eccentric and demanding, resolutely maintains the old ways, determined above all to make his son into a farmer fit to take over the family acres. His son, David, is equally determined not to be  bullied into something he neither wants nor likes.
CHILDREN'S AUTHORS 
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Andy Hussey
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Jo Coker
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Rachel Smith and Charlie Ford
WENDY DARLING 
"No Darling, It's called Bad Organisation" 
Wendy's memoir spans from her wartime childhood to the fashion and beauty scene in 60's and 70's London to becoming an interior designer to the rich and famous.
Click on the cover picture to buy a signed copy of Wendy's book, enter discount code "COTSWOLDS"
HUGO RITTSON-THOMAS
WILDFLOWERS FOR THE QUEEN
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I loved speaking to photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas about his breathtaking new book - a visual celebration of Britain's Coronation Meadows.
If you'd like to buy the book, click on the cover image to go to Hugo's website.
LESLEY SAINTY
TAKING THE WATERS -
I interviewed local author, Lesley Sainty.  Lesley told me about her first novel set in Regency Cheltenham.  She talked about what inspired her to write the book and read an excerpt to whet your appetites!
Follow @lesleysainty on Instagram and Twitter to enjoy her photos and Cheltenham History Walks
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HELEN GRANT
GHOST STORIES
At Halloween, I talked to Helen about her books, including her most recent "Ghost" and the supernatural.  Helen also read us her short story - The Ghosts of Innerpeffray -  set in the remarkable Library of Innerpeffray in rural Perthshire

​Previously on ...

Click to download a selection of our programmes
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AUSTRALIAN WRITERS with Jodie Love
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TINTIN with Martha & Tim / ERIK THE VIKING with Daisy
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with Tim Hamilton and Tony Dale

We recommend...

COTSWOLD CHARACTERS BY JOHN DRINKWATER
Read by Sian
I found this charming little book when researching the Dymock Poets.  Published in 1921, it features 5 vignettes of Cotswold Characters, illustrated with wood block prints by Paul Nash.
Australian Novels

Dirt Music / The Turning / Cloudstreet  
Tim Winton

Oscar and Lucinda 
Peter Carey

Rabbit Proof Fence 
 Doris Pilkington-Gariwara

My Place 
Sally Morgan

Camille's Bread 
Amanda Lohrey

​​Picnic at Hanging Rock 
Joan Lindsay
Thrillers / Mystery

​The Killer in the Rain
by Raymond Chandler

​The Man with the Twisted Lip
Arthur Conan Doyle

Rebecca
​by Daphne du Maurier

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Ghost Stories
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The Complete Works of MR James

The Ghosts of Innerpeffray
 Helen Grant
Children’s Choices

Wonder
by RJ Palacio

Erik the Viking
by Terry Jones

The Black Island
(and all other Tintin books!)
Herge