07/07/2026
July 6th’s meeting saw us sharing more recommendations for books.
Trevor Hughes brought Peter Holme’s 2025 book “Westmorland Voices Through Time”, a record of the author’s audio recordings from many well known locals. An easy, entertaining and nostalgic read for anyone with local connections.
Margaret Belk’s contribution was two books with the same title, “The Greatest Knight”. Elizabeth Chadwick’s is a historical novel and Thomas Ashbridge’s a biography of the same William Marshall. Marshall also had local connections and he shaped the England we live in today. He is little known, but is a fascinating character from the late 1100s/early 1200s.
Philip Hoyle gave us the William Boyd novels “Love is Blind” and “The Romantic”, eclectic books of travel in different times, femmes fatales and the exciting adventures of a myriad of lives.
More adventure from David Oates in Sarah Outon’s “Dare to Do”, charting her single handed travels around the world by kayak, bicycle and rowing boat, being rescued from both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans before paddling her kayak back up the Thames.
Finally a recommendation from newly installed President Paul Harkness was Jonny Walker’s autobiography about his time as a DJ and career with the BBC.
