Book circle 1
Book Circle 1
We meet soon after 10am for coffee on the 4th Monday of every month except August and December. At present we have 12 members and no vacancies.
At 10.30 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. It is expected that all members will have read the book before the meeting. The wide range of authors & styles covered leads to stimulating discussions, sometimes changing opinions. We end at midday.
The books selected for future reading are:
- October 2019 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
- November 2019 Educated by Tara Westover
- January 2020 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
- February 2020 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Convener: Ann Gyulai, phone 020 8992 0500, or email through the blue bird top right
Books read in 2019 and 2018 have been:
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)
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