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I Book Club

 

 

The Book Club meets about every 6 weeks. It is pretty informal but produces some interesting discussions. Over a period they have made their way through:

The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach

 

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

 

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson... Not for the faint hearted

 

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

 

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

 

The Golfinch by Donna Tartt....Hard Work

 

A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre..Brilliant

 

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo - unusual

 

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - challenging

 

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

 

The Snowman - Jo Nesbo- Very graphic and absorbing

 

Kolymsky Heights - Lional Davidson - an old fashioned thriller, lots of action

 

Paying Guests - Sarah Walters

 

Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewert- good friendly Sunday afternoon read

Leaving Berlin - Joseph Kanon -  a spy story set in Berlin just after ww2, slow to start but all action finish

Moving  - Jenny Eclair

 

Home stretch - Graham Norton

Sorrow and Bliss   Meg Mason

The Holiday   - T M Logan

The Edwardians  Vita Sackville-West

Days of Winder - Keith Stuart

 

Shuggy Bain  Douglas Stuart

 

 

 

Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith

The Girl in the Spiders Web - David Lagercrantz -A worthy follow up in the Steig Larsson Millennium series

Five Rivers Meet on a Wooded Plain - Barney Norris - A good firstbook by a local author

Coffin Road - Peter May

Amicus

Friendship

Group

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