The Words & Pictures Book Club

Summer in February by Jonathan Smith

Monday 11^th February 2019, 2-4pm

Gleneagles Tea Rooms

Join us for the Words & Pictures book club where we will be reading and discussing novels in which visual art and artists are relevant to the narrative. This month we’ll look at Jonathan Smith’s “Summer in February” telling the tale of the Newlyn artists’ colony in the years just before WW1.

Munnings, Alfred James; In Cornwall (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife); Birmingham Museums Trust; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/in-cornwall-portrait-of-the-artists-wife-33975

Jonathan Smith’s “Summer in February” is published by Little,Brown

Alfred Munnings: In Cornwall (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife) [1911; Birmingham c/o artuk.org]

Words & Pictures meets monthly 2-4pm in the glorious surrounds of the Gleneagles Tea Rooms – where there is tea and cake a-plenty!

All welcome but please email me to reserve your place: chasingtales@rocketmail.com

Gleneagles Guesthouse
5-6 Clifftown Parade
Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1DP

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