The Literary Wineaux Society

Remember back when we first started BUZZ BOOKS & BUBBLES? We read 'Victorian Psycho' by Virginia Feito and it was a WILD book! From the start, the movie rights were purchased before it was even published. Now the film is premiering November 13 and we will be there to see it!

THIS IS A GOTHIC HORROR MOVIE! So please note graphic tone and imagery.

It's time for November Book Club and in celebration of our THREE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY, our theme for November is DINNER PARTY!

The Votes are in and the November Book Club pick is....

'What We Can Know' by Ian McEwan

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.

"It gave me so much pleasure I sometimes felt like laughing. . . . It’s a sophisticated entertainment of a high order." —The New York Times

"Brilliantly, and surprisingly, plotted."—The Washington Post
• "A novelist of consummate skill."—The Wall Street Journal
• "Elegantly structured and provocative."—Los Angeles Times

Summary
2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery.

2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, ‘A Corona for Vivian’. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.

What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

Hello Wineauxs!

For November's Buzz Books & Bubbles we will be reading the very relevant to our times, BIOLOGICAL WAR by Annie Jacobsen.

This is a non-fiction book by an award-winning investigative journalist. This is a present-day investigation that reads like a thriller and includes how artificial intelligence would affect the spread of a biological weapon.

Instant New York Times Bestseller!
New York Times Editors' Choice
New York Times Best Books of 2026 (So Far)
One of People's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer
The Next Big Idea Club's July 2026 Must-Read Books
One of the New York Times Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer
Sunset Magazine's 15 New Books You Don't Want to Miss

A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this essential new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario. It would be only a matter of days from such a global infection before the infrastructure built to handle this gravest of situations would be in a battle for human existence.

The fallout: mass death, total societal breakdown, widespread insurrection, anarchy, and a plague-ravaged wasteland that no longer resembles modern civilization. In other words: dystopia.

Following the gripping narrative style that launched Nuclear War to the New York Times bestseller list, Jacobsen looks deeply at a situation that is in some ways the opposite of a nuclear bomb: There is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small, and something so malicious, that when used for evil, only evil can result.

This is what could happen; a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.

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