Updates
Dates and Speakers for 2025/2026
2025
Tuesday 16th September 2025 – dinner* at Brown’s guest speakers Daphne Tonge (Illumicrate) and David Headley (Goldsboro Books) “Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The World of Book Subscriptions”
Tuesday 4th November 2025 – dinner* at Brown’s guest speaker Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE
Tuesday 2nd December 2025 – The Book Society Christmas Party at the October Gallery
Tuesday 3rd February 2026 – dinner* at Brown’s guest speaker TBCTuesday 21st April 2026 – dinner* at Brown’s guest speaker TBC
Tuesday 21st April 2026 – dinner* at Brown’s guest speaker TBCTuesday 21st April 2026 – dinner* at Brown’s guest speaker TBC
Tuesday 19th May 2026 – AGM (at Browns) & pizza party at Goldsboro Books
The Book Society AGM 2025: Tuesday 20th May 5.15pm
Notice of AGM
The Book Society AGM will take place on Tuesday 20th May 2025 at 5.15pm (in person/online).
In person – book a space under EVENTS; Online – join via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/kpk-wyia-khq
Agenda for the 2025 AGM – click to download
Minutes from the 2024 AGM – click to download
Chair’s Report – click to download
Honorary Secretary’s Report – click to download
Honorary Treasurer’s Report – click to download
I&E statement for 2024 – click to download
Minutes for the 2025 AGM – click to download
An Evening with the Book Society: A celebration of 100 years of dinners, discussion and friendship
Commissioned to celebrate 100 years of the Book Society, An Evening with the Book Society is available for purchase from Marble Hill Publishers.
All member are entitled to receive a free copy. If you haven’t yet received a copy, please email Ben Hughes at Benjamin.hughes@ingramcontent.
In 1921 Hugh Walpole founded the Society of Bookmen, a club for publishers, booksellers and literary agents designed to meet regularly to eat together and share industry knowledge. Now, a hundred years and a name change later, the Society continues to attract new members and be a place to find new connections and ideas. Would Walpole recognise the Society in the twenty-first century? This short history will take you on an evening out with the book men and women whose decisions, guests and speakers throughout the decades have made the Book Society what it is today.