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📚 Gloucester Reading Groups Host 📝 Holistic Creative Writing Group Host 🌿 Mindfulness Coach ✅ Mindset for Success Coach 🤲🏻 Reiki Level 1 🖊 Studying a Positive Psychology Diploma 📍 Gloucestershire

📚 FREE Reading Groups 📚❗️No monthly subscription fees, no need to all read the 'same' book (theme set every month), free...
26/01/2026

📚 FREE Reading Groups 📚

❗️No monthly subscription fees, no need to all read the 'same' book (theme set every month), free event, cosy coffee shop settings, WhatsApp Group and Private Facebook Groups included, Raffle.

📍 Venues: Hucclecote & Longlevens, Gloucester - Coffee House 43 & Cafe Elm

🌐 Please see my website via link in bio.

➡️ Hucclecote Group established March 2025, Meet first Weds of every month - Waiting List, DM to be added.

➡️ Longlevens Group established January 2026, Meet first or second Monday of every month - One Space remaining. Please DM me for info.

📚 Fun and laughter guaranteed.

📚Anyone over the age of 18 welcome.

➡️ Next Reading Group Meeting: 🗓️ Weds 4th February 🕰️ 9:30am to 11:30am📍Coffee House 43, Hucclecote📚Theme: What a Woman...
21/01/2026

➡️ Next Reading Group Meeting:

🗓️ Weds 4th February
🕰️ 9:30am to 11:30am
📍Coffee House 43, Hucclecote
📚Theme: What a Woman

This book club is currently fully subscribed. Please DM me if you'd like to join my waiting list.

See my website here: https://www.thecotswoldbooknookreadinggroups.co.uk/ for further info re: my groups.

Coffee House 43

18/01/2026

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Last week 'The Cotswold Book Nook' Reading Group met at Coffee House 43 for our first book club of 2026. 📚Lots of laught...
15/01/2026

Last week 'The Cotswold Book Nook' Reading Group met at Coffee House 43 for our first book club of 2026. 📚

Lots of laughter as usual. 🤣

We welcomed new members Jess and Madeleine to the Group. 👋🏻

Theme: New Beginnings:

Our Reviews ⬇️

Book: Pine
Author: Francine Toon
Genre: Gothic Thriller / Ghost / Horror / Thriller
Read By: Eunice
Rating: 5/10 👎🏻 (Book doesn't explain why mother returned)

Book: The Book of Beginnings
Author: Sally Page
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Read By: Amanda
Rating: 8/10 👍 (A gentle, easy read)

Book: The Measure
Author: Nikki Erlick
Genre: Dystopian Fiction / Speculative Fiction / Sci-Fi
Read By: Jess
Rating: 9/10 👍 (How people behave when they know others lives are expendable, human nature)

Book: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Author: Christy Lefterie
Genre: Historical / Political Fiction
Read By: Pauline
Rating: 7/10 👍 (Not an easy read, an eye opener)

Book: Becoming Ted
Author: Matt Cain
Genre: Contemporary Romance / LGBTQ+ Fiction
Read By: Vic
Rating: 9/10 👍 (Quick read, feel good, heart warming)

Book: The Twins of Auschwitz
Author: Eva Mozes Kor
Genre: Biography / True Story
Read By: Jane
Rating: 10/10 👍 (Difficult, poignant read, not enjoyable subject matter)

Book: The Names
Author: Florence Knapp
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Read By: Polly
Rating: 9/10 👍 (Debut novel based around 3 names for a baby boy and the implications)

Book: The Wild Remedy (NF)
Author: Emma Mitchell
Genre: Nature Writing / Memoir
Read By: Madeleine
Rating: 8/10 👍 (Lovely photos, educational, quiet and steady book, a bit of a sad read)

Book: The Sea Stone Sisters
Author: Eleanor Buchanan
Genre: Historical Fiction / Family Saga
Available: March 2026
Read By: Rachel
Rating: 9/10 👍 (2 timelines, complicated plot, 3 more books to follow)

Book: The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
Author: Evie Woods
Genre: Historical / Supernatural / Magical / Romance
Read By: Jane (Host)
Rating: 10/10 👍 (An easy, light read. A heartwarming book with a sprinkling of the supernatural and magic)

Next Meeting:
🗓️ Weds 4th February
🕰️ 9:30am to 11:30am
📍Coffee House 43, Hucclecote
📚Theme: What a Woman!

This book club is currently fully subscribed. Please DM me if you'd like to join my waiting list.

See my website here: https://www.thecotswoldbooknookreadinggroups.co.uk/ for more info re: my groups.

Coffee House 43

10/01/2026

With Greg and Kate Mosse

Delightful Reading Group held at Coffee House 43 in Hucclecote this morning. Lots of great book reviews and laughter. A ...
07/01/2026

Delightful Reading Group held at Coffee House 43 in Hucclecote this morning.
Lots of great book reviews and laughter. A great start to 2026! 📚☕️

Coffee House 43

📚📚 GLOS READING GROUP ☕️☕️DM me to be added to my Wait List 📚☕️Our next meeting date is: 🗓️ Date: Mon 9th Feb 2026 (no l...
05/01/2026

📚📚 GLOS READING GROUP ☕️☕️

DM me to be added to my Wait List 📚☕️

Our next meeting date is:

🗓️ Date: Mon 9th Feb 2026 (no longer Mon 2nd Feb)
⏰ Time: 9:30am to 11:30am
📚 Theme: Humour (Fiction or Non Fiction)
📍 Venue: Cafe Elm, Longlevens

I have a Waiting List, if interested please DM me.

Cafe Elm

☕️ The BRAND NEW Longlevens branch of 'The Cotswold Book Nook' Reading Group met for our very first session today (Mon 5...
05/01/2026

☕️ The BRAND NEW Longlevens branch of 'The Cotswold Book Nook' Reading Group met for our very first session today (Mon 5th January) at Cafe Elm.

❄️ Our theme was 'Winter' - Fiction or Non Fiction.

📚 Book Reviews:-

Book: Murder at the Christmas Carols
Author: Izzie Harper
Genre: Cosy Crime
Read By: Sue
Rating: 10/10 👍 (A light, easy read)

Book: A Christmas Vanishing
Author: Anne Perry
Genre: Chilling Whodunit
Read By: Sunny
Rating: 8/10 👍 (Unusual in that this book has no chapters)

Book: I Wish it could be Christmas Everyday
Author: Milly Johnson
Genre: Festive Romance
Read By: Susan
Rating: 10/10 👍 (Best read at Christmas, a "Sprinkling of Fairy Dust")

Book: How to Winter
Author: Kari Leibowitz
Genre: Non Fiction / Health & Well-being
Read By: Jane (Host)
Rating: 7/10 👍 (Based around Scandinavian countries, it wasn't all relatable)

Book: Iced
Author: Felix Francis
Genre: Thriller
Read By: Lynda
Rating: 7/10 👍 (Suspense fizzles out!)

Book: The Wives
Author: Tarryn Fisher
Genre: Murder Mystery
Read By: Sophie
Rating: 7/10 👍 (Loved twist at the end but didn't enjoy middle part of this book)

Book: Wintering
Author: Katherine May
Genre: Non Fiction / Well-being
Read By: Lyn
Rating: 8/10 👍 (A very gentle read and relatable)

Book: Housemaid
Author: Frieda McFadden
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Read By: Ann
Rating: 10/10 👍 (2 good plot twists)

📚 Our next meeting date is:-

🗓️ Date: Mon 9th Feb 2026 (no longer Mon 2nd Feb)
⏰ Time: 9:30am to 11:30am
📚 Theme: Humour (Fiction or Non Fiction)
📍 Venue: Cafe Elm, Longlevens

➡️ I may have 2 places available, if interested please DM or e-mail me.

🙌 A big Thank You to Leanne at Cafe Elm for enabling us to meet in her cosy cafe.

📚 Reading Groups ~ About the Host: Hi, I'm Jane 👋🏻I've spent the last 30+ years working in a variety of full time and pa...
04/01/2026

📚 Reading Groups ~ About the Host:

Hi, I'm Jane 👋🏻

I've spent the last 30+ years working in a variety of full time and part time roles. I'm married with one YA and I have a rescue cat.

📚 Book Clubs:
I ran my very first Reading Group in March 2024, it's fully subscribed. I start my new 2nd Reading Group tomorrow (5th Jan).

👩🏻‍🎓 Qualifications:
I have a BSc (Hons) Degree and I hold a QCF Level 3 in 'Supporting Teaching & Learning in Schools'. I also have an ITIL Foundation certificate (ICT).
Holistically, I'm trained/attuned in a First Degree in Reiki and I completed an IPHM Accredited 'Introduction to Spiritual Life Coaching' Diploma a few years ago. This led me into training in a 'Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Coaching' Diploma and a 'Mindset for Success Coaching' Diploma in 2023/early 2024. I'm currently studying a 'Positive Psychology' Diploma.

📝 Creative Writing:
Since 2014, I have shared my short fiction and poetry on an online blog (WordPress) and X (previously Twitter).
Around the same time, I was in a pool of commentators for an online writing community for school children. They were from around the world, not just the UK.
Pre-Pandemic, I attended a Creative Writing course (evening classes) held at Gloucestershire College in Cheltenham.

📘 Previous Voluntary Work:
I have listened to young readers in Junior School 2-3 times a week.

✨ Holistic Well-Being:
I've hosted Holistic Well-being Workshops, Women's Circles and Holistic Creative Writing Groups since March 2024.

🏊‍♀️ Hobbies:
In Summer 2021, I became an Open Water Swimmer. I've swum throughout the Winter in a Cotswold lake. The cold water swimming inspired me into attending a Wim Hof Breath and Ice Bath Workshop run by two of his daughters in 2022. For charity, I've also done a Fire Walk. I've studied Beginners French, Spanish and Photography at Evening Classes. I also attend a Yoga evening class intermittently. No surprise; I love to read books and thoroughly enjoy a visit to a bookshop.

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Wednesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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