Contact Name 1	see "More Information for Members"
Contact Telephone 1	email only, please
Contact Name 2	see "More Information for Members"
Contact Telephone 2	email only, please
Email prefix	discoveringauthors
Frequency/Day/Time	3rd Friday of the month at 10.00am for 2 hours September to July
Venue	Burness Rooms, Melton Parish Hall, 36 The Street, Melton
Cost	£2.50 per session (paid Termly)to cover hire of hall and refreshments
Vacancies	yes

• New members  can come for a free session to see if they would like to join. After that, if they would like to join they would pay subs. Subs are £2.50 a session and are due  each term whether or not someone is there for all the sessions. The subs cover the cost of the hall hire and refreshments. 

• Around May we agree a theme for the coming year's meetings eg European Authors . For each meeting a different member would choose a book and a month when their book will be read and discussed. 

This coming year's theme is DEBUT NOVELS

 Books to be discussed this year 2026-27

• Sept -My Sister the Serial Killer (Oyinkan Braithwaite)
• Oct - The Correspondent (Virginia Evans)
• Nov - The Return of the Soldier (Rebecca West)
• Dec - Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
• Jan - The Forrester’s Daughter (Claire Keegan)
• Feb - White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
• Mar - Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
• Apr – After You'd Gone ( Maggie Farrell) 
• May - Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart)
• Jun - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)
• Jul - The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams)