Riverbend Knits & Novels Book Club

Our Knits and Novels Bookclub meets at 10am on (approximately) the fourth Wednesday of each month. We read contemporary fiction with the odd memoir or classic thrown in. Some of our members like to knit, crochet or craft during our bookclub session - and we are always keen to do a show and tell of our current craft projects!

For Knits & Novels Book Club members, please scroll down to find out what your current and next book club books are. You will also find a calendar of dates and the list of books that you've read over the past year.

DATES FOR 2026

READING IN JUNE

Whistler

by Michael Pedersen

When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Met museum in New York, she doesn't expect it to be Eddie - her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn't seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives.

But meeting again now, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both. And reflecting on the short, intense time they spent with each other, they begin to piece together the moments that have defined them and shaped who they have become.

A moving, luminous story about how family, memory, and love endures, Whistler paints an intimate portrait of how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.