Book circle 1
'LOCKDOWN' UPDATE
Ann is thrilled to report that Book Circle 1 resumed face to face meetings in August with a Summer Celebratory luncheon. In a change to our usual format everyone brought a dish to share and presented a brief overview of a book they had enjoyed of any genre.
Our next session will be on Monday 27th September starting at 10:30am. Now September has arrived it feels appropriate to kick off the new term with an updated list of book choices.
The book selections for Autumn Term 2021 are:
- September 2021: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- October 2021: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- November 2021: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- December 2021: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings
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Book Circle 1
We usually 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.
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 couple of years have been:
2021
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