Book Group 1
CONVENOR - Margaret Jones
DAY - Varies, use Bluebird icon to contact the Group for up-to-date information
VENUE - Member's Home
TIME - 14.30 - 16.30
We are currently full but when vacancies arise we are always happy to welcome new members. We meet on a variety of weekdays and we would love to meet anyone who is passionate about literature.
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Reading List 2024
| Date | Book | Author | Host |
| 10/07/24 | Along the Amber Route St Petersburg to Venice | O J Schuler | Georgina |
| 19/06/24 | To be confirmed | - | Sue |
| 15/05/24 | Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson | Jane |
| 17/04/24 | His Bloody Project | Graeme Macrae Burnet | Thai |
| 13/03/24 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | June |
| 14/02/24 | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell | Antonia |
| 10/01/24 | A Girl's Story | Annie Ernaux | Margaret |
Previous Reading List 2023
| 13/12/23 | French Braid | Anne Tyler | From the Pulitzer prize winning author. | |
| 08/11/23 | Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | A modern day version of David Copperfield. | |
| 11/10/23 | Lucy by the Sea | Elizabeth Strout | From the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author, a story about a world in lockdown. Lucy is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small own in Maine. | |
| 12/09/23 | Why be happy when you could be normal? | Jeanette Winterson | A story of the author's painful past in Accrington and her search for her birth mother. | |
| 12/07/23 | Agent Sonya | Ben McIntyre | The story of secret agent 'Sonya' (real name Ursula Kuczynski) who was probably one of the best agents ever recruited by the Soviets. | |
| 14/06/23 | In the Blink of an Eye | Jo Callaghan | Traditional Policing and Artificial Intelligence join forces to solve two missing persons cold cases in this suspenseful debut novel. Featured on BBC 'Between the Covers' Book Club. | |
| 10/05/23 | The Exhibitionist | Charlotte Mendelson. | Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. | |
| 12/04/23 | Nobody's Son | Cathy Glass | A story of fostering and adoption. | |
| 15/03/23 | Letters to Camondo | Edmund de Wall | The author's latest book uses the art collection and archives of 63 rue Monceau to create a haunting and meditative series of letters through which to explore the fate of a dynasty of bankers, his family’s friends and neighbours. | |
| 15/02/23 | Through the Narrow Gate | Karen Armstrong | Author's memoir of her time in a Convent. | |
| 18/01/23 | The Aftermath | Rhidian Brook | This novel is a portrait of Germany in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and the people who lived there. | |
| 15/12/22 | Snowdrops | AD Miller | Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2011, this is a psychological drama set in a harsh winter in Moscow | |
| 16/11/22 | The Island of Missing Trees | Elif Shafak | Featured on BBC2's Between the Covers programme, this is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal. | |
| 12/10/22 | Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus | Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller and featured on BBC Between the Covers programne. Described by Waterstones as "Smart, funny, joyous and powerful, Garmus' 60s set debut featuring an unconventional female scientist with a quiet game-plan to change the world has won the hearts and minds of our booksellers and is undoubtedly one of 2022's most gloriously enjoyable debuts." |