Book Group 4
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Our meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month at 2pm and are held at members' homes.
Our group was formed in 2018 and the books we have read so far are listed below. Members have the opportunity of suggesting books to be read at subsequent meetings. We plan to read and discuss a variety of both fiction and non-fiction books (old and recent) and are continuing to compile a varied list of suggestions.
We have ten members (both men and women) in our group and are currently at capacity.
Our next book is Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley . The meeting to discuss this book will be held on Thursday 16th May 2024, starting at 2pm at John's home.
The June meeting will be at 2.00pm on Thursday 20th June at Diane's home.
We will be discussing A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie.
So far we have read and discussed
- East West Street by Philippe Sands
- An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- Trumpet by Jackie Kay
- Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
- The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Nature's Engraver (a life of Thomas Bewick) by Jenny Uglow
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
- Conundrum by Jan Morris
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
- Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Waiting for the Last Bus by Richard Holloway
- Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
- Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
- Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
- The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
- The Emigrants by W G Sebald
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernarine Evaristo
- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
- Charles Dickens - A Life: by Claire Tomalin
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen
- Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
- Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
- Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
- A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- Apeirogen by Callum McCann
- Wilding by Isabella Tree
- William Armstrong (Magician of the North) by Henrietta Heald
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
- Tinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
- Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession
- Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
- Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
- Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
- The Magician by Colm Toibin
- The Promise by Damon Galgut
- Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
- Grey Bees by Audrey Kurkov
- The Machine Stops by E M Forster
- The Bastard of Instanbul by Elif Shafak
- Corridors of Power by C P Snow
- Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
- Still life by Sarah Winman
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
- The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
- The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaaje
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
- Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
- Return of a King by William Dalrymple
-Oh William by Elizabeth Strout
-The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
-Open City by Teju Cole