Book circle 1
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Book Circle 1 holds face to face meetings, which meet soon after 10:00am for coffee on the 4th Monday of every month with the book discussion starting around 10:30am.
We have 10 members and no vacancies.
The book selections for the first few months of 2024 are:
- April - My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
- May - Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
At each meeting, the presenter for the month introduces their chosen book. There is complete freedom in book choice either fiction or non-fiction with no restrictions on length or genre. The only proviso being that it must be available in paperback. It is expected that all members will have read the book before the meeting.
The Book Circle members agreed to choose and present one book annually. The August and December meetings are organised differently. These meetings are celebratory allowing time to share informally our wider reading enthusiasms.
Convener: Ann Gyulai, phone 020 8992 0500, or email through the blue bird top right
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Books read by this group over the last few years have been:
2024
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes (March)
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant (February)
The Man Who Saved London by George Martelli (January)
2023
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (November)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (October)
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (September)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (July)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (June)
Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir by Alan Garner (May)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (April)
The Pied Piper by Nevil Shute (March)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (February)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (January)
2022
The King's General by Daphne du Maurier (November)
Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene (October)
Slow Horses by Mick Herron (September)
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon (July)
Nocturnes by Kasuo Ishiguro (June)
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (May)
The day of the storm by Rosamunde Pilcher - changed by presenter (April)
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee (March)
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré (February)
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (January)
2021
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings (December)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (November)
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (October)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (September)
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (July)
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (June)
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (May)
On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming (April)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (March)
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (February)
And Furthermore by Dame Judi Dench (January)
2020
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (December)
Lara by Bernadine Evaristo (November)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (October)
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke (September)
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (July)
Heatwave by Penelope Lively (June)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (May)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (April)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (February)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (January)
2019
Educated by Tara Westover (November)
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (October)
Naples ‘44 by Norman Lewis (September)
Conclave by Robert Harris (July)
Not Without my Daughter by Betty Mahmoody (June)
Oleander Jacaranda by Penelope Lively (May)
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill (April)
Sky Burial by Xue Xinran (March)
A Place called Winter by Patrick Gale (February)
Joyland by Stephen King (January)
2018
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (November)
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale (October)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (September)
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (July)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (June)
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam (May)
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (April)
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim (March)
On the Beach by Nevil Shute (February)
Fateless by Imre Kertesz (January)
A list of the books read by this group since it started in 2003 is shown in the file accessible through Links on the right side, above