Month
discussed |
Author |
Title |
Nov 2019
|
John Boyne |
The Heart's Invisible Furies |
Oct 2019
|
Robin Robertson' |
The Long Take |
Sep 2019
|
Jessie Burton
|
The Miniaturist
|
Aug 2019
|
Anna Burns |
Milkman
|
Jul 2019
|
Melissa Harrison' |
Hawthorn Time
|
Jun 2019
|
Hannah Kent |
Burial Rites
|
May 2019
|
Nick Hunt |
Where the Wild Winds Are
|
Apr 2019
|
Salley Rooney
|
Normal People
|
Mar 2019
|
Rebecca Scott
|
In the Days of Rain |
Feb 2019
|
Ken Follett
|
The Pillars of the Earth
|
Jan 2019
|
-
|
AGM
|
Dec 2018
|
Kamila Shamsie
|
Home Fire
|
Nov 2018
|
Virginia Woolf
|
To the Lighthouse
|
Oct 2018
|
John Le Carre
|
Legacy of Spies
|
Sep 2018
|
Omar Robert Hamilton's
|
The City Always Wins |
Aug 2018
|
Polly Clark's
|
Larchfield |
Jul 2018 |
Sebastian Barry
|
Days without End
|
Jun 2018
|
Jeffrey Eugenides
|
Middlesex
|
May 2018
|
Ali Smith
|
Autumn
|
Apr 2018
|
Laurie Frankel
|
This Is How It Always Is |
Mar 2018
|
Henry Marsh |
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery |
Feb 2018
|
Margaret Atwood |
Alias Grace |
Jan 2018
|
-
|
AGM
|
Dec 2017
|
Kazuo Ishiguro
|
Remains of the Day
|
Nov 2017
|
Julian Barnes
|
Noise of Time
|
Oct 2017
|
Colm Tobin
|
House of Names
|
Sep 2017
|
Graham Wift
|
Mothering Sunday
|
Aug 2017
|
Richard Kerridge
|
Cold Blood
|
Jul 2017
|
Lionel Shriver
|
The Mandibles
|
Jun 2017
|
James Shapiro
|
1606: Shakespear and the Year of Lear
1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare
|
Apr 2017 | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans |
Mar 2017 | Svetlana Alexievich | Chernobyl Prayer |
Feb 2017 | Anne Brontė | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
Jan 2017 |
- |
- AGM |
Dec 2016 |
Patricia Highsmith |
Strangers on a Train |
Nov 2016 |
Joshua Slocum |
Sailing around the World |
Oct 2016 |
Evan S. Connell |
Mrs. Bridge |
Sep 2016 |
Emma Hooper |
Etta and Otto and Rusell and James |
Aug 2016 |
Ben MacIntyre |
A Spy among Friends |
July 2016 |
John Williams |
Stoner |
June 2016 |
Jane Austen |
Emma |
May 2016 |
Tim Dee |
Four Fields |
April 2016 |
Cormac McCarthy |
Blood Meridian |
Mar 2016 |
J.D. Salinger |
The Catcher in the Rye |
Feb 2016 |
Anthony Trollope |
The Way We Live Now |
Jan 2016 |
- |
- AGM |
Dec 2015 |
James Joyce |
The Dubliners |
Nov 2015 |
Bruce Chatwin
|
The Songlines |
Oct 2015 |
E.M. Forster |
Howards End |
Sep 2015 |
Ann Enright |
The Gathering |
Aug 2015 |
Jim Crace |
Harvest |
July 2015 |
Terry Pratchett |
The Colour of Magic |
June 2015 |
Dave Goulson |
A Sting in the Tale |
May 2015 |
Ian McEwan |
The Children Act |
April 2015 |
Andrea Levy |
Small Island |
Mar 2015 |
Albert Camus |
The Plague |
Feb 2015 |
Wlkie Collins |
The Woman in White |
Jan 2015 |
- |
- (AGM) |
Dec 2014 |
Richard Yates |
The Easter Parade |
Nov 2014 |
Helen Dunmore |
The Lie |
Oct 2014 |
Nathan Filer |
Shock of the Fall |
Sep 2014 |
Tom Sharpe |
Blot on the Landscape |
Aug 2014 |
Ismail Kadare |
Broken April |
Jul 2014 |
Murakami |
Norwegian Wood |
Jun 2014 |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
One Hundred years of Solitude |
May 2014 |
Tim Dee |
The Running Sky |
Apr 2014 |
Siegfried Sassoon |
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer |
Mar 2014 |
Dr Steven Peter |
The Chimp Paradox |
Feb 2014 |
George Eliot |
Middlemarch |
Jan 2014 |
- |
-(AGM) |
Dec 2013 |
Jennifer Egan |
A Visit from the Goon Squad |
Nov 2013 |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
The Beginning of Spring |
Oct 2013 |
Ian Banks |
The Wasp Factory |
Sep 2013 |
A D Miller |
Snowdrops |
Aug 2013 |
William Trevor |
The Old Boys |
July 2013 |
Claire Tomalin |
Thomas Hardy: The
Time-torn Man |
May 2013 |
Thomas Hardy
|
Short Stories |
April 2013 |
John Lanchester |
Capital |
Mar 2013 |
George Orwell |
Down and Out in Paris and London |
Feb 2013 |
Graham Swift |
Wish You Were Here |
Jan 2013 |
Josephine Tey |
The Daughter of
Time |
Dec 2012 |
Alan Hollinghurs |
The
Stranger's Child |
Nov 2012 |
Yiyun Li |
A Thousand Years
of Good Prayers |
Oct 2012 |
Julian Barnes |
A Sense of Ending |
Sep 2012 |
Emily Bronte |
Wuthering Heights |
Aug 2012 |
Emily Bronte |
Wuthering Heights |
Jul 2012 |
Spke Milligan |
Puckoon |
Jun 2012 |
William
Kamkwamba |
The Boy Who
Harnessed the Wind |
May
2012 |
Thaler
& Sunstein |
Nudge: Improving
Decisions about Health, Wealth
& Happiness' |
Apr 2012 |
Andrew Miller |
Pure |
Mar 2012 |
Mary Shelley |
Frankenstein |
Feb 2012 |
Sheila Steward |
|Lifting the Latch |
Jan 2012 |
General
discussion with fish and chips! |
Dec 2011 |
Kathryn Stockett |
The Help |
Nov 2011 |
Richard Hughes |
The Fox in the
Attic |
Oct 2011 |
R.M. Pirsig |
Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance |
Sep 2011 |
Tea Obreht |
The Tiger's Wife |
Aug 2011 |
- |
- |
Jul 2011 |
Beryl Bainbridge |
Master Georgie |
Jun 2011 |
Michael Lewis |
The Big Short |
Apr 2011 |
C J Sansom |
Dissolution |
Mar 2011 |
J G Ballard |
Life's Miracles |
Feb 2011 |
Hilary
Mantel |
Wolf Hall |
Jan 2011 |
Helen
Dunmore |
Spell in
Winter |
Dec 2010 |
Tracey
Chevalier |
Remarkable
Creatures |
Nov 2010 |
Anthony
Trollope |
The Warden |
Oct 2010 |
Charles
Dickens |
Bleak
House |
Sep 2010 |
Paul
Gallico |
The Snow
Goose |
Aug 2010 |
Martin
Amis |
Money |
Jul 2010 |
Roy
Jacobson |
The
Burnt-Out Town of Miracles |
Jun 2010 |
Marjane
Satrapi |
Persepolis
|
May 2010 |
Kate
Summerscale |
The
Suspicions of Mr Whicher |
Apr 2010 |
Thomas
Hardy |
Far from
the Madding Crowd |
Mar 2010 |
Mohsin
Hamid |
The
Reluctant Fundamentalist |
Feb 2010 |
Margaret
Atwood |
The
Handmaid's Tale |
Jan 2010 |
Nevil Shute |
On the Beach |
Dec 2009 |
Stieg Larsson |
Girl with Dragon
Tattoo |
Nov 2009 |
Oscar Wilde |
Dorian Gray |
Oct 2009 |
Sarah Waters |
Fingersmith |
Sep 2009 |
Paul Theroux |
The Great
Railway Bazaar/
Ghost Train to
the Eastern Star |
Aug 2009 |
Henry Miller |
Tropic of Cancer |
Jul 2009 |
Orwell
Ben Goldacre |
Inside the Whale
and Other Stories
Bad Science |
Jun 2009 |
Ernest Hemmingway |
For Whom the Bell
Tolls |
May 2009 |
Aravind Adiga |
White Tiger |
Apr 2009 |
T. S. Eliot
Wendy Cope |
The Wasteland
Any poem |
Mar 2009 |
Updike |
Any novel |
Feb 2009 |
Sophocles |
Antigone |
Jan 2009 |
Malcolm Pryce |
Aberystwyth Mon
Amour |
Dec 2008 |
Jane Austen |
Persuasion |
Nov 2008 |
Minette Walters |
The Breaker |
Oct 2008 |
Salman Rushdie |
Midnight’s
Children |
Aug 2008 |
Evelyn Waugh |
Vile Bodies |
Jul 2008 |
Nadine Gordimer |
The
Conservationist |
Jun 2008 |
James Lovelock |
Revenge of Gaia |
May 2008 |
Iain Banks |
Steep Ascent to
Garbadale |
Apr 2008 |
Rose Tremain |
The Road Home |
Mar 2008 |
William Boyd |
Restless |
Feb 2008 |
Chekhov |
Short stories |
Jan 2008 |
Leo Tolstoy |
Anna Karenina |
Dec 2007 |
Grahame Greene |
The Quiet
American |
Nov 2007 |
Peter Carey |
Tax Inspector
and My Life as a Fake |
Oct 2007 |
Niall Griffiths |
Runt |
Sep 2007 |
Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie |
Half of a Yellow
Sun |
Aug 2007 |
Emile Zola |
Nana |
Jul 2007 |
David Mitchell |
Black Swan Green |
Jun 2007 |
Mitch Albom |
Five People You
Meet in Heaven |
May2007 |
Arundhati Roy |
God of Small
Things |
Apr 2007 |
Mervyn Peake |
Titus Groan |
Mar 2007 |
Primo Levi |
Periodic Table |
Feb 2007 |
Michael Frayn |
Spies |
Jan2007 |
Richard Dawkins |
The God Delusion |
|
Al Gore |
Inconvenient
Truth |
|
Marina Lewycka |
A Short History
of Tractors in Ukrainian |
|
Flaubert |
Madame Bovary |
|
Rose Tremain |
Music and Silence |
|
David Lodge |
The British Museum
is Falling Down |
|
Evelyn Waugh |
Decline and Fall |
|
Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
|
Margaret Atwood |
Oryx and Crake |
|
Khaled Hosseini |
The Kite Runner |
1st book |
Liz Jensen |
The Ninth Life
of Louis Drax |