Vinny & Ted Book Club Choice – July 2026

July Book Club

Chalfont – Tuesday 7 July 2026, 7.30pm

Beaconsfield – Tuesday 7 July 2026, 7.30pm (Please note this is a change from 14th July)

We will be sharing our thoughts about:

The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer and/or My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende. Please use code V&TBOOKCLUB at the checkout to receive your 10% discount.

Do come along and join us to talk about one, or both, of these books. Order your discounted books here for free collection from either store. Sign up by emailing matt@vinnyandted.co.uk

The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer

Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him.

He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back.

But, as events unfold, it starts to dawn on him that perhaps she didn’t leave of her own accord after all…?‘A genuinely unexpected storyline . . .

My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende

Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man’s name.

When Emilia lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner, her unwavering sense of adventure – and new-found determination to survive in her own name – leads her to seize the chance to cover a brewing civil war in Chile alongside another talented reporter. But the assignment offers Emilia more than just an opportunity to prove herself as a writer. Before long she embarks on a treacherous, life-changing journey in a homeland she never knew, to uncover the truth about her father – and herself.

A masterclass in historical storytelling from Isabel Allende, My Name is Emilia del Valle is a powerful tale of love and war, told by a valiant young woman who confronts monumental challenges, survives and reinvents herself along the way.