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We started the year by reading Lisa McInerney’s first novel The Glorious Heresies,<br />
described by the Irish Times as ‘a big, brassy, sexy beast of a book’ which was<br />
sometimes bleak but also funny and certainly sparked an interesting discussion at<br />
our meeting.<br />
For our second book of the term it seemed appropriate, in the President’s final year,<br />
to read her most recent biography Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life which we all enjoyed<br />
very much – a fascinating and detailed insight into this writer’s life. The difficult<br />
circumstances which forced Penelope Fitzgerald to live in unconventional places<br />
led us to choose George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London for discussion<br />
at the start of Hilary Term. Later in the term we read All the light we cannot see by<br />
Anthony Duerr. Set in Germany and France before and during the German occupation<br />
of France, this was quite a page-turner but stylistically not to everyone’s liking.<br />
In Trinity Term, we read Homegoing by Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi.<br />
Through a series of interconnected stories, the novel portrays West Africa’s role in<br />
the transatlantic slave trade from the 18th to the 21st century.<br />
For our final book this year, we have chosen to read The Essex Serpent by Sarah<br />
Perry which we will be discussing later in the summer.<br />
New members are always welcome to join the group. We normally meet in the<br />
Florey Room over a glass of wine.<br />
Jan Scriven<br />
Running<br />
The Club continues to foster a vibrant running community within the <strong>College</strong>. Our<br />
group-runs are open to all abilities: they follow a variety of routes and promote<br />
a sociable, relaxed and inclusive running ethos. However, when the time comes,<br />
some of us are ready for competition and have achieved some great successes<br />
over the past year. In the Teddy Hall relays, our women’s team (Emma McIntosh,<br />
Karwei So and Katie Gardner) came fourth. The men’s team, despite a couple of late<br />
withdrawals, performed admirably, with an especially gutsy run by Anders Malthe<br />
Bach-Mortensen. Our other major event was the Oxford Town and Gown 10K,<br />
where we entered more than ten runners and achieved some fantastic times. We now<br />
look ahead to the Oxford half marathon in October.<br />
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