We’d love you to join our Borderlines Book Club !

Our book club is a monthly gathering on the first Wednesday of each month.

We will meet on Zoom from 7 - 8pm. The tone will be very informal – and hopefully, fun and interesting.  

Everyone is invited - and we’d love it if you can read the book before you arrive! If you buy your book from Bookends in Carlisle, they’ll give you 20% off. 

JULY date postponed - more information coming soon on the date for August. 

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, August  when we'll be discussing  Enlightenment by Sarah Perry 

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS  


Our next meeting ...

  • 2nd July 2025 - Enlightenment by Sarah Perry .

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry


Previous books we've read and discussed

2021

  • June - Leonard and Hungry Paul - Ronan Hession 
  • July - The Midnight Library - Matt Haig 
  • August - Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owen
  • September - Hungry By Grace Dent 
  • November - All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
  • December - The First Woman by Jennifer Makumbi

2022

  • February - The Wild Silence - Raynor Winn 
  • March - The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • April - A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende
  • May - Outbreak - Frank Gardner 
  • June - Ariadne - Jennifer Saint 
  • July - Venice - Jan Morris 
  • August - Diary of a Somebody - Brian Bilston 
  • September - The Murder Book - Mark Billingham 
  • November - Educated - Tara Westover

2023

  • January - Small things - Claire Keegan
  • February - Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
  • March - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
  • April - My Name is Why - Lemn Sissay 
  • May - Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
  • June -  Meet Me at the Museum - Anne Youngson 
  • July- The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier 
  • August - Wild Fell - Lee Schofield 
  • September - The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles  
  • November - The Echo Chamber - John Boyne 
  • December - The Ballroom - Anna Hope 

2024

  • The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer 
  • April - The Promise - Damon Galgut 
  • May - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
  • June - A Winter Grave - Peter May 
  • July - Normal Rules Don't Apply - Kate Atkinson  
  • August - Farmer's Wife by Helen Rebanks  
  • September - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • November - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 
  • December - Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang 

2025

  • February - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  • March - The Marmalade Diaries by Ben Aitken  
  • April - James by Percival Everett    
  • May -  This Bright Life by Karen Campbell   
  • June - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 

Any questions, please drop us a line - borderlinescarlisle@gmail.com

Borderlines Book Festival would like to thank our Partners:

Tullie House Bookends Free Radicals Pinc

Sign up to our email newsletter for all the latest festival news