Vinny & Ted Book Club Choice – June 2026

June Book Club

Chalfont – Tuesday 2 June 2026, 7.30pm

Beaconsfield – Tuesday 9 June 2026, 7.30pm

We will be sharing our thoughts about:

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans and/or When The Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén. 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 Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Every morning, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters – to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her correspondence – witty and wise – to make sense of the world.

But beyond the page, she has spent the last thirty years keeping the people who love her at arms’ length… Until letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life. Now, Sybil must send the letter she has been writing for all these years – and find forgiveness within herself in order to move on.

Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might not be an extraordinary one, but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.

When The Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén

Bo is determined to live his own life in his own way. But his son has other ideas…

Bo lives a quiet existence in his small rural village in the north of Sweden. He is elderly and his days are punctuated by visits from his care team and his son. Fortunately, he still has his rich memories, phone calls with his best friend Ture, and his beloved dog Sixten for company.

Only now his son is insisting the dog must be taken away. The very same son that Bo is wanting to mend his relationship with before his time is up. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotions and makes Bo determined to resist and find his voice.

‘The kind of book you give to someone when you’re really trying to say “I’ve been thinking about you” but don’t know how.’ Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A Man Called Ove’

One of those “you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love” books’ New Yorker

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD