Beehive Book Club #25
Who else is enjoying the grim weather? With the sound of rain making its way indoors, the dull greyness of the sky making the lighting...
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harryp
Sep 19, 20201 min read
Beehive Book Club #23
Summer seems to be challenging autumn at the moment. Conkers lying on the ground but with July temperatures. What an incredible week of...
harryp
Sep 12, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #22
As you look out the windows of the Beehive café, you have a perfect view to people watch. Recently, we’ve started to have groups of...
harryp
Sep 5, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #21
This weekend is the first birthday of the child of one of my friends. Lots of celebrations are going on! As I was thinking about the...
harryp
Aug 29, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #20
One of my favourite events of the year is the Fringe festival in Edinburgh. For in excess of three weeks in August, the fringe is a...
harryp
Aug 22, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #19
Before going into detail about this book, I have to be honest, it is a bit of a downer. With everything going on, I will not blame you...
harryp
Aug 15, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #18
During some of lockdown’s more tedious moments, I have enjoyed distracting myself by reading history books. Transporting my mind back...
harryp
Aug 9, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #17
In the long-forgotten past, when it was not unusual for people to go on international holidays to far away places, one of my good...
harryp
Aug 1, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #16
During my last few shifts at the café, we have been talking about how, during history class at school, when we were growing up, we...
harryp
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Beehive Book Club #15
One consequence of the lockdown for me has been walking round London far more. Places that I thought were far away, turned out to be...
harryp
Jul 18, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #14
Ahead of writing this, I was having a browse through the books that clutter my bedroom and this one caught my eye. As I picked up...
harryp
Jul 4, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #12
I thought it would be fun do go back to a classic. ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ was written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1892
harryp
Jun 27, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #11
Our read this week is ‘The Book of Tea’ by Kakuzo Okakura
harryp
Jun 20, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #10
This week’s book is ‘Things Fall Apart’ by Chinua Achebe.
harryp
Jun 13, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #9
This week’s book is, ‘The Silk Roads’ by Peter Frankopan, which is definitely the best world history book I have ever read.
harryp
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #8
We are going to be talking about ‘Stay With Me’ by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀.
harryp
May 30, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #7
Today, we will be looking at ‘The Girl Who Reads On the Metro’ by Christine Féret-Fleury.
harryp
May 23, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #6
This week, we are going to do a play. I LOVE Russian literature; I can’t really put my finger on exactly what it is about Russian writers.
harryp
May 16, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #5
Next book on the Beehive Book Club list is ‘How much of These Hills is Gold’ by C Pam Zhang.
harryp
May 9, 20202 min read
Beehive Book Club #4
I fell in love with coffee shops before I fell in love with coffee. There is just something amazing about the atmosphere of a café.
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