Our bookclub was started in February 2005 by Zeb Patterson who worked in publishing and wanted to stay up to date on current fiction. So she decided to turn her work task into a social one… because everything is better with a group of great girls, a giggle and a glass of wine.

It was decided that we would meet the first Tuesday of each month with August off and December reserved for a celebratory Christmas dinner out. And for the last twenty years that has pretty much remained our formula.

​We have a few rules but are not very good at sticking to them.

The constants are a delicious sit-down meal, a little (sometimes a lot) of wine, some chat about the book and the joy of spending a night surrounded by amazing women who over the years have become more like family than friends.

The original members included Zeb, Maria, Liz, Kathy, Ingrid, Emma C, Emma J plus Steph, Sonia, Vicki, Bryony and Sophie later to be replaced by Susi, Sarah, Anna and Vas to make up the current eleven.​