Berk Worms Book Club: Christmas Meal

Welcome to the Berk Worms Book Club. Each month we all read the same book from a different genre and then meet to discuss it as well as other books we are reading.

For December we are having our Christmas meal and discussing a novel between courses.

For the Christmas meal we need to pay a £10 deposit in advance. Please can you send this to my Paypal account using the following link:

https://www.paypal.me/Cazza83301

The xmas menu costa £39.50 for 3 courses and £32.50 for two courses. Please see the menu options by flowing this link:

https://highwaymanberkhamsted.com/menu/christmas/
I will need your meal choices next week, please.

We will also be reflecting on our year of reading and selecting our 2025 genres which is always good fun.

We have selected to read a Political Fiction novel: ‘It Cant Happen Here’ by Sinclair Lewis. The novel was published in 1935 and is approximately 458 pages. It is available in all formats, including Kindle and Audible.

About the novel:

Published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, It Can't Happen Here is a chilling cautionary tale by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, which is still startlingly relevant almost a century later. Charting the rise to power of Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip, who whips his supporters into a frenzy while promising drastic reform under a banner of patriotism and traditional values, It Can't Happen Here decries the tactics used by politicians to mobilise voters, and exposes the danger of authoritarianism arising from populist platforms, and the chaos such regimes can leave in their wake.

About the Author
Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was an American writer and playwright who, in 1930, became the first US writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best remembered for his novels Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith, which attracted praise for their representation of working women, and for his 1935 novel cautioning against the rise of fascism in America, It Can't Happen Here.

Reading ahead with the BERKWORMS

14 January 2025: we are reading Prize Winning Womens fiction.

Happy reading, Cazza