Out On An Island & Bendy Book Club – Coffee Social & Book Club @ One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight

Out On An Island’s Coffee Social and Bendy Book Club will be meeting at One Holyrood in Newport from 10.45am on 25th February.

It’s a relaxed social meeting, so you can come along even if you haven’t read the book but would like to socialise and meet friendly folk.

The coffee social with breakfast or drinks will be taking place in the café from 10.45am. The book club will be meeting in the lounge from 11.45am.

Note: One Holyrood stop serving breakfast at 11.30am.

Please let us know if you can’t make it and if you have suggestions or any other queries, please contact Caroline at caroline@stonecrabs.co.uk / 07786 080203.

February’s book is This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes. You can also join the Bendy Book Club Facebook group to stay up to date.

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes, OBE, is the nation’s favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story – and it’s well worth the wait.

Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she’s ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked ‘Do you fuck?’

From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.

Date: Saturday 25 February
Time: 10.45 am
Location: One Holyrood, Newport, Isle of Wight
Price: Free
February’s Book Selection: This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes