Would you like to join our Book Club?  

It's an opportunity for men to read, or listen to, good books for exploring, deepening and challenging us in a life with God. It’s taken at a gentle pace to allow time to reflect, about 2-3 pages a day. 

Interested?  Read on to find out more, sign up for our regular email updates and join our Book Club WhatsApp chat!

What to expect

We (Steve Braithwaite and Tim Patten) will send out a weekly reminder of the reading (e.g. it’s chapter 3 this week), so we can keep roughly together in reading and engaging in any online discussions. We’ll also include links to optional extra resources such as podcast episodes and articles that you may find helpful. 

We plan to use WhatsApp for discussions and weekly information, and to meet up in person after every month of reading (with possible Zoom meeting for those who can’t make it in person) to chat over our thinking and experience with the book’s content. 

We meet in the Church Centre once a month on a Tuesday evening, 7.30-9.00pm. The dates for the monthly in person meetings for the rest of 2025 are 14 October, 11 November, and 9 December.

If you would like to join our WhatsApp chat please click here. Please be aware that by clicking the link and joining, you are giving permission for others in the chat to have access to your mobile number. 

Our next book

"The Screwtape Letters" by C.S.Lewis is a much-loved classic. Lewis uses the engaging and sometimes entertaining literary device of a senior devil writing to an apprentice devil, as a way of helping us to consider how to live better lives. The book is widely available new or second-hand, and there have been good recordings, for example this one by John Cleese freely available on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4tpazCxTXw

On 14 October, we will discuss our "summer read" (Bear Grylls' "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; don't worry if you haven't read it) and introduce "The Screwtape Letters" (we don't expect you to have started reading it before 14 October).

Register your Interest

Would you like to know more? Sign up by clicking here to register your interest.