Join a Better Read Book Club
Due to popular demand, we now have two book groups that meet upstairs in our lovely reading room.
The groups meet on the 2nd and the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7pm. Both groups do different books, so feel free to come along to both and double your fun!
If you would like join us please call us on 9557 8700 or email us at books@betterread.com.au
We do require an RSVP so that we can make sure there's a chair and a glass of wine ready when you get here, so don't be shy!
October Books
2nd Wednesday Reading Group
11th November, 7pm
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Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, it also has moments of wild humour. Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences mark the novel. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted at the last moment to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering.
3rd Wednesday Reading Group
18th November, 7pm
Nocturnes
By Kazuo Ishiguro
In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.
Bring Your Reading Group to BRTD
At Better Read Than Dead we can offer you advice on what to read, help find suitable titles, source reading notes, and now, offer you a comfortable place to meet. Our Reading Group Room, situated out of sight on our top level, is a quiet, comfortable room where you can discuss your latest book. The room has a small kitchen, fridge and all the facilities you need.
Support for Your Book Group
We provide a number of free services for your Book Group:
- If you register your Book Group with Better Read Than Dead you will receive a 10% discount on books that your club is reading. For purchases of 10 or more books at one time there is a 15% discount. To do this we recommend choosing a group member each month who is responsible for ordering and picking up the books for the entire group.
- A starter pack on running a book group if needed.
- We are happy to help you select your next Book Group book. You can take books on Approval to give you and your group time to decide what books interest you. Just return the books within a week.
- If you give us your list of books we will order them and hold them behind the front counter for your members to buy.
- We will maintain a list of your Club's selections for your members to consult.
- Reading book discussions questions for books chosen.
- One of our staff members can make a presentation of thought-provoking books to your group - either at the bookstore or at your location.
- If there are particular Sydney authors who you would like to have visit your Book Group, we will make every endeavour to facilitate it.
- If you would like to host your bookclub at Better Read Than Dead, call or email Kate on 95578700 / books@betterread.com.au