The Croft Book Club
Do you like to curl up with a good book?
Want to share your favourite authors, plots and characters?
The Croft Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of every month from 7pm – 8.30pm at the Croft Tea Room in St Mary Cray.
At our next meeting on the 20th February our theme is: Prize-Winning Books. Please tell us about any book(s) you have read, that are winners of a book prize such as the Costa, Man Booker, Pulitzer, Somerset Maugham, Women's Prize for Fiction (Orange Prize), etc
Please join us for Tea / Coffee and Cake (£4 – pay on the night), Friendship, Fun – and Books!
The Croft Tea Room is at 263 High Street, St Mary Cray BR5 4AR T: 01689 835569 M: 07835 366701
Do you like to curl up with a good book?
Want to share your favourite authors, plots and characters?
The Croft Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of every month from 7pm – 8.30pm at the Croft Tea Room in St Mary Cray.
At our next meeting on the 20th February our theme is: Prize-Winning Books. Please tell us about any book(s) you have read, that are winners of a book prize such as the Costa, Man Booker, Pulitzer, Somerset Maugham, Women's Prize for Fiction (Orange Prize), etc
Please join us for Tea / Coffee and Cake (£4 – pay on the night), Friendship, Fun – and Books!
The Croft Tea Room is at 263 High Street, St Mary Cray BR5 4AR T: 01689 835569 M: 07835 366701
REMEMBERING THE AUTHOR RICHMAL CROMPTON (1890 – 1969)
Richmal Crompton died on 11th January 1969, fifty years ago, in Farnborough Hospital at the age of 78. Born in Bury, Lancashire, she had come south as a young woman to live in Bromley, and later in Chislehurst. Her career as a teacher at Bromley High School came to an end in 1923 when she contracted polio. Writing became her sole profession after that. It brought fame and fortune when her Just William stories achieved mass popularity. Altogether there were 39 books of the stories published between 1922 and 1970.
Richmal Crompton died on 11th January 1969, fifty years ago, in Farnborough Hospital at the age of 78. Born in Bury, Lancashire, she had come south as a young woman to live in Bromley, and later in Chislehurst. Her career as a teacher at Bromley High School came to an end in 1923 when she contracted polio. Writing became her sole profession after that. It brought fame and fortune when her Just William stories achieved mass popularity. Altogether there were 39 books of the stories published between 1922 and 1970.
