LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
Welcome to this edition of BookTalk, which you are receiving online as part of your membership of the Suffolk Book League. This BookTalk and previous editions are available on the website as well as being sent to members by email. This edition coincides with the start of our programme for 2022, which for our 40th Anniversary year is exciting and varied.
BookTalk is our journal of record, in which we look back on the recent past and forward to future plans. Our decision to move to this format has been made with care. Our recent printed versions are handsome and durable, but take considerable labour and involve increasing expense. We are able to embed links to other sites in articles so do click through to read further. We hope you will enjoy this way of sharing our love of books. If you need a version of BookTalk on paper we can provide it for you, though it will be a simple print-off of the material. Be in touch with us so that we can help.
We are always pleased to include contributions from our members in BookTalk. You might send us a short notice about a book you have enjoyed, or a longer consideration of a book or an author, (the editor will decide on length!). Or even a letter about books and authors – anything related to the enjoyment of reading. We love hearing from you to stimulate our interest and suggest new directions for our own reading.
The Suffolk Book League programme for 2022 is now happening with enjoyable evenings face-to-face with writers whom we bring to Ipswich. We hope to see you at these regular events, usually at the Ipswich Institute (but at the University of Suffolk on May 19th).
Enjoy your reading this year, and urge friends and fellow book group members to take out membership of Suffolk Book League. By the way, we were pleased to see some memberships being bought as gifts for others at the new year. That is an excellent way of introducing people to what we offer.
Keith Jones
Chair of Suffolk Book League
enquiries@suffolkbookleague.org