The YCAA Lunchtime Book Group

The Yeovil Community Arts Association is dedicated to bringing all forms of art and culture to a wide audience in the south Somerset area.  Among their many ways of  bringing people together, they have recently launched the YCAA Lunchtime Book Group.

This was in response to comments made by many people who, for whatever reason, find it difficult to join a book group that meets in the evenings.  Parents of school age children, or people who live on their own, or simply do not like going out after dark, especially in the winter months. Transport can be problem, and the convenience of buses and the bus pass was always mentioned.

So this very friendly and not too ‘highbrow’ group of  diverse people of all ages, meet to discuss a couple of books each month.  One may appeal more than the other, so only one may be read, but it is always interesting listening to the discussion.  You may end up reading the one that didn’t, at first, appeal to you.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 11th February at the Theatre Café of the Octagon, in Yeovil. We meet from 12 noon until 2pm.  The is a FREE event, where you can buy a drink from the Octagon to have with your own lunch.  Sandwiches and salads are easy to eat as you listen and talk about books.

The choice for February is:-  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Marriage, by Alice Munro, who in 2013 won the Nobel Prize for Literature.  This is a marvellous collection of short stories, all set in the author’s home country of Canada.

The second book is widely available in paperback, and is called Two Caravans by Maria Lewycka.  This is a funny and compelling novel touching on a currently topical subject, and is very thought-provoking. 

Both these books are really good ‘reads’.  Come along and enjoy the company of like-minded people in a super setting in the Theatre Café of The Octagon, Yeovil.


Liz Pike is Secretary of the Yeovil Community Arts Association.  She is also a member of the Yeovil Cre8ive Writers and Yeovil Art Group.The YCAA administers the annual, international writing competition The Yeovil Literary Prize. Liz is passionate about the written word, having had success writing short stories, and enjoys two reading groups, one of which is the YCAA Lunchtime Book Group.