BYC Book Club | Ballyholme Yacht Club

April

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

If you like to read and need inspiration and the opportunity to chat with other book lovers – then it’s time to join the BYC Book Club.

– Please note – the Book Club is only open to BYC members and guests of members (who must be signed in)

Scroll down to learn more about the club and how it works.

To join the book club / attend the next meeting, either contact the office and they can get you added to the Whatsapp group, or complete the form at the link below.

Join the Book Club

We will discuss this book in the Main Lounge on Thursday, 2nd May at 8pm at the Club Main Bar.

Past reads:

2024

March – The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel, by Gabrielle Zevin (Book Club score – 7.2/10)
February – Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (Book Club score – 5/10 – from the 4 who managed to finish the book)
January – The Trial, by Rob Rinder (Book Club score 6.71/10)

2023

December – The Outrun, by Amy Liptrot (Book Club score 7.1/10)
November – In The Company Of The Courtesan Paperback, by Sarah Dunant (Book Club score 8.1/10)
October – Brain on Fire: My month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan (Book Club score 7/10)
September – After the Silence, by Louise O’Neill (Book Club score 7.2/10)
August – The White Spider, by Heinrich Harrer (From those that finished it – 6.5 (4 readers) All readers, whether finished or not – 4.9 (9 readers))
July – Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus (Book Club score 8.2/10)
June – The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki (Book Club score 7.2/10)
May – Snow by John Banville (Book Club score 7.3/10)
April – Erebus by Michael Palin
March – Dracula by Bram Stoker (Book Club score 7.5/10)
February – The Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor (Book Club score 7.3/10)
January – The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page (Book Club score 6.6/10)

2022

December – The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Book Club score 6.9/10)
November – Milkman by Anna Burns (Book Club score 9.8 – of those who finished the book!)
October – Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (Book Club score 7.75/10)
September – A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford
August – Wintering by Katherine May (Book Club score 5.25/10)
July – The Therapist by BA Paris (Book Club score 5.9/10)
June – Away with the Penguins by (Book Club score 8.1/10)
May – The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (Book Club score 5.2/10)
April – Endurance by Aldred Lansing (Book Club score 8/10)
March – The Glass Cell, by Patricia Highsmith (Book Club score 7/10)
February – Lily’s Promise, by Lily Ebert and Dov Forman (Book Club score 6.9/10)
January – The Body, Bill Bryson

2021

December – The Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith
November – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
October – The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, by Haruki Marakumi
September – The Waisted Vigil, Nadeem Askam
August – The Guest List, Lucy Foley
July – Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
June – The Lost Man, Jane Harper
May – The Last Migration, Charlotte McConaghy
April – A Letter to a Lucky Man, Thomas Jobling
March – Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
February – The Salt Path, Raynor Winn

How the book club works

Note: the Book Club is only open to members and guests of members (who must be signed in).
The monthly catch up meeting is the first Thursday of every month at 8pm, meeting at the Club in the Main Bar.
At the meeting we discuss the previous month’s book. The discussion is guided by a cheerful ’emcee’ and that chat is lively and varied discussing the book’s plot, setting, writing style, issues raised (eg, homelessness in The Salt Path) – and the author. Nobody is put on the spot for their opinion and it is absolutely fine to just listen.
When we remember, we give the book a score.
A new book is drawn, blind picking from the suggestions put forward by members of the book club.
Members purchase the books at their own expense and of course, if they don’t like the look of a book they are quite welcome to drop out for that month, but most people are in the club to try different genres.
If you’d like to join in simply sign up here: https://bit.ly/BYC-BookClub and you will be added to the club’s Whatsapp group where you can join the chat, and will then get the link for the Zoom meeting.