The Borzoi Bookshop

Book for September 2025

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

Croydon 1964 - Art therapist Helen Hansford is working in a psychiatric hospital, where she has been having a passionate but precarious affair with her married colleague, the charismatic Dr Gil Rudden.

Helen and Gil's lives are upended when William Tapping - a silent 37 year old man with a beard down to his waist - arrives at the hospital. As Helen helps William express himself through art, she becomes increasingly entangled in his mysterious past.....

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The book club meets monthly. Our next meeting is on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 10.00am at the farm shop at Daylesford Organic.

Daylesford Book Club is a combined venture between Daylesford Organic and the Borzoi Bookshop.    We meet at 10.00am in the farm shop on the last Wednesday of every month (excluding December).  

Book Club books can be purchased from the Borzoi by clicking here.  Book Club members receive a 15% discount on the price of the book.

If you are interested please contact us.