Welcome to Well Red Book Club!
The Well Red book-club was first suggested by a group of friends who also happened to have a progressive left political outlook, as a forum for discussion and debate about culture and books.
Our first meeting was in Kirkintilloch Library, which was fitting given it's connections with Tom Johnston, the great socialist who, among other things helped to establish the left journal Forward in 1905. The Library cafe was an excellent venue as it meant that a family were able to come along - the proximity of the Children's Library meant that the children were able to read and be read to while mum and dad took part in the proceedings!
Eleven people of all ages came along to our first meeting, and each of us spoke about our relationship with books, and gave a short "review" of a favorite book. Some of the books people described were politcal and some had political themes. Books discussed ranged from the Stieg Larsson trilogy, Watership Down, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Koestler's "Scum of the Earth," science fiction books such as the books of Iain M. Banks and Ursula le Guin and the recent books on the recent political upheavals in the west and beyond by Paul Mason.
It was agreed that we meet again on the 24th March - venue to be decided (watch this blog for further details!) and we would be discussing "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee as well as personal recommendations and reviews of what people have recently read!
Please check back here for meeting times etc, and reviews by members! If you are on Facebook, please "like" our bookclub page - See
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Other events - We will be showing a DVD in Kirkintilloch Leisure Centre on June 23rd at 11am - "Sylvia Pankhurst, Everything is Possible" and hope to have someone to speak on the feminism and Sylvia's fight for universal suffrage as well as her opposition to WW1 and her internationalism (details on the film HERE )
We will be travelling up to Faslane on 28th June for our contribution to the 30th anniversary of the Camp. We hope to have a demo, some food and perhaps a bit of music and performance at the gates! Email plottracer@googlemail.com if you would like to be part of this...
