BOOKLISTS 2016 and 2017 and 2018
2016 (updated November 2016)
BOOK | AUTHOR | READING GROUP MEMBER | MONTH | |
Whiskey Galore | Compton McKenzie | Ann Firth | January | |
How Green was my Valley | Richard Llewellyn | Sue Davies | February | |
Brooklyn | Colm Toibin | Jane Cassie | March | |
The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans | Edith Coates | April,14th | |
The Tea Planter's Wife | Dinah Jeffries | Ali Ritz | May 12th | |
A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | Cynthia Livesey | June 9th | |
The Girl in the Red Coat | Kate Hamer | Di Barker | July 14th | |
The Tent, The Bucket and Me | Emma Kennedy | Jean Hicks | August 11th | |
The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | Elizabeth Park | September 8th | |
A Spy Among Friends:Philby and the Great Betrayal | Ben Macintyre | Dorothy Downing | October 13th | |
The House of Hidden Mothers | Meera Syal | Rosemary Horsley | November 10th | |
Is the Vicar In Pet? | Barbara Fox | Cynthia Livesey | December 8th |
SUGGESTIONS FOR 2017
BOOK | AUTHOR | READING GROUP MEMBER | MONTH | |
The Shepherd’s Life | James Rebanks | Sue Davies | January 12th | |
The Separation | Dinah Jeffries | Ali Ritz | February 9th | |
Small Island | Andrea Levey | Elizabeth Park | March 9th | |
The Crow Road | Ian Banks,Ann Firth | April 13th | ||
The Little Paris Bookshop | Nina George | Moyra Meehan | May 11th | |
The Five People you meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | Betty Hutton | June 8th | |
Yannis | Beryl Darby | Ali Ritz | July 13th | |
Lake Wobegon Days | Garrison Keillor | Dorothy Downing | August 10th | |
The Taliban Cricket Club | Imeri M Murani | Jean Armstrong | September 14th | |
Sovereign | CJ Sansom | Sue Davies | October 12th | |
Not Quite Nice | Celia Imrie | Jane Cassie | November 9th |
BOOK LIST FOR 2018
BOOK | AUTHOR | COMMENTS |
Holy Island | L.J.Ross | Our second favourite book |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night | Mark Haddon | |
Postcards from Greece | Victoria Hislop | |
Good Wives | Margaret Forster | |
Belgravia | Julian Fellows | |
This Boy | Alan Johnson | Our Favourite book |
Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford | |
Wedlock | Wendy Moore | Our third favourite book |
Hidden Nature | Alys Fowler | |
Monument to Murder | Mari Hannah |