Auckland Romance Readers Book Club Meeting #30
Schedule
Sun Oct 19 2025 at 06:15 am to 07:30 am
UTC+13:00Location
Chapter Book & Tea Shop | Auckland, AU
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❤️📚 Are you a romance reader? And would you like to meet some like-minded readers to chat with and make new friends? If so, do come along to our monthly book club meeting.Book: Bringing Down The Duke by Evie Dunmore
Series: League of Extraordinary Women #1
Genre/Subgenre/Category: Romance—Historical—Victorian
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, a smart, educated heroine fighting for the suffrage movement against a powerful and traditional hero, and a historical romance setting that grounds the story in the social and political challenges of the late 19th century.
Spice Rating: 4/5 Explicit Open Door (Source: https://www.romance.io/)
Trigger & Content Warnings: Cheating (mentioned), Imprisonment, Sexism, Sexual assault (Source: http://www.booktriggerwarnings.com/)
Discussion Moderator: TBD
Reading Copies: Auckland Library has 6 print copies plus 2 large print copies circulating. The book is not available on Libby. It is also NOT available on Kindle Unlimited Australia (as of 24/09/25).
This is a Free Event. Water, juice and tea provided. All welcome.
Please feel very welcome to turn up half an hour earlier to the book club meeting to chat casually (we'll reserve space from 3.45pm onwards).
To RSVP and/or to Book a Zoom Link*:
✉️ [email protected] or 📱 021-635027 or ☎️ 09-6232319
*Attending the meeting by zoom is possible; but please let us know at least 24 hours in advance so we know to set it up.
Parking information: please visit https://www.mounteden.co.nz/getting-here.
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Book Synopsis:
England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for.
Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. But he wouldn't be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn't claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring...or could he?
Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke....
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Where is it happening?
Chapter Book & Tea Shop, 440 Mount Eden Rd, Mount Eden, Auckland 1024, New Zealand, AucklandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
