Books Discussed
The books we have read and discussed are shown below. Most books have a link to a page where you can read about our discussion. WARNING may contain "spoilers"
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
Toast by Nigel Slater
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
The Stranger`s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Accidental Tourist by Ann Tyler
The Sea by John Banville
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
A Whispered Name by William Broderick
Salmon Fishing in The Yemen by Paul Torday
One Day by David Nicholls
The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
The Emperor`s Spy by M C Scott
How it all Began by Penelope Lively
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Maybe
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Snowball Oranges by Peter Kerr
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
This Boy by Alan Johnson
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Suite Française by Irène Nemirovsky
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Night Manager by John le Carré
1984 by George Orwell
The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
Washington Square by Henry James
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Shepherd\'s Life by James Rebanks
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Secret Rooms by Catherine Bailey
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Plague by Albert Camus
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Stop the Clocks by Joan Bakewell
The Summer of the Bear by Bella Pollen
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro
The Song Collector by Natasha Solomons
Kes by Barry Hines
Marnie by Winston Graham
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Russia House by John Le Carré
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Lion by Saroo Brierley
The Citadel by A J Cronin
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers