2014

January: Pat Barker 'Toby's Room'

February:  Marcus Zusek 'The Book Thief'

March:  Paula Byrne 'Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson'

April: Anne Tyler ‘Digging to America’

June: Daniel Mason 'The Piano Tuner'

June: Tan Twan Eng 'The Garden of Evening Mists'

July: Robert Galbraith 'Cuckoo's Calling'

September: Philip Hensher 'The Northern Clemency'

October:  Rachel Joyce 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'

November : Iris Murdoch 'The Bell'

December : Christmas Party at Clare's


2013

January:  Laurie Lee  'Cider with Rosie' and Winifred Foley 'Child of the Forest'

February: Orhan Pamuk 'Snow'

March:  Monique Roffey 'The White Woman on a Green Bicycle'

April: Mohsin Hamid 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'

May: Anita Desai 'Fasting and Feasting' 

June: David Mitchell 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet'

July:Tracey Chevalier 'Remarkable Creatures'

September: William Boyd 'Any Human Heart'

October: Children's books

November : Elizabeth Taylor 'A View of the Harbour'

December : Christmas Party 7pm at Clare's house. Bring a dish, something to share and a book for the bran tub.

 

2012

 January: Julian Barnes 'The Sense of an Ending'

February: Philip Roth 'The Human Stain'

March: Rebecca Skloot 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'

April: F Scott Fitzgerald 'The Great Gatsby'

May: Jeanette Winterson 'Why be happy when you could be normal'

June: Willa Cather 'My Antonia'

July:Jon MacGregor ' If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things'

September: Elizabeth Gaskell 'Mary Barton'

October: Salley Vickers 'Miss Garnett's Angel'

November : Evelyn Waugh 'A Handful of Dust'

December : Christmas Party and Book Lucky Dip

2011

January: Christmas Lucky Dip book

February: Albert Camus 'The Outsider'

March: Beryl Bainbridge 'An Awfully Big Adventure'

April: Linda Grant 'We Had it So Good'

May: Molly Keane 'Good Behaviour'

June: Barbara Vine 'The Brimstone Wedding'

July: Jane Austen 'Pride and Prejudice

September: Edmund de Waal 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes' 

October: A.B. Yehoshua 'The Lover'

November : Sarah Winman ‘When God was a Rabbit’

December: Christmas Party and Book Lucky Dip 

 

 

2010

February:  Barack Obama 'Dreams from my father'

March: W.G.Sebald ' Austerlitz'

April: Corinne Hoffman 'The White Masai'

May: Muriel Barberry 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog'

June: Colm Toibin 'Brooklyn'

July: Kathryn Stockett 'The Help'

August:

September: H.E. Bates 'Fair Stood the Wind for France'

October: Kingsley Amis 'Lucky Jim'

November: Harper Lee 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

December: Christmas Party and Book Lucky Dip for January meeting

2009

January:  Richard Yates 'Revolutionary Road'

February: Jo Tatchell 'Nabeel's Song'
March: J.D. Salinger 'Catcher in the Rye'
April:  Anthony Trollope 'The Warden'
May: Marilynne  Robinson 'Gilead'

June: Pascal Mercier 'Night Train to Lisbon'

July: Charlotte Mendelsohn 'When We Were Bad'

August: 

September:  Mikail Bulgakov 'A Country Doctor's Notebook'

October: Aravind Adiga 'The White Tiger'

November: George Orwell 'Coming Up for Air'

December: Christmas party- wear a hat and bring something to talk about. Book swap.

 

2008

January: Iréne Némirovsky ‘Suite Française’

February: Ian MacEwan ‘On Chesil Beach’

March: Mark Haddon ‘A Spot of Bother’

April: John Steinbeck ‘Cannery Row’

May: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’

June July : Doris Lessing ‘The Golden Notebook’

August: Muriel Spark ‘A Far Cry from Kensington’

September: Joyce Carol Oates ‘Middle Age’

October: Khaled Hosseini ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’

November : Sebastian Faulks ‘Birdsong’

December : Words on a Christmas theme chosen by members

 

 

2007

January: Henry James ‘The Turn of the Screw’

February: Elizabeth Hyde ‘The Abortionist’s Daughter’

March: Julian Barnes ‘Arthur and George’

April: Patrick Marnham ‘Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley’

May: Steph Penney ‘The Tenderness of Wolves’

June: David Mitchell ‘Black Swan Green’

July: Nigel Slater ‘Toast’

August: Nicola Kraus ‘The History of Love’

September: Kim Edwards ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter’

October: Yiyuan Li ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’

November: Neil Gaiman ‘Fragile Things’

December: Poems chosen by members


2006

January: CS Lewis ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’

February

March: Charles Dickens ‘Bleak House’

April: Alexander McCall-Smith ‘44 Scotland Street'

May: Gabriel Garcia Marquez ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’

June : Jane Gardan ‘Old Filth’

July: Marina Lewycka ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian’

August: Anne Tyler ‘Ladder of Years’

September: Jaqueline Wilson (members’ own choice of one of her titles)

October: Jack Rosenthal ‘By Jack Rosenthal’

November: Zadie Smith ‘On Beauty’

December: A book that made me laugh or cry - members share experiences

 

2005

January (1): Tom Robbins ‘Skinny Legs and All’

January (2): George Elliott ‘Middlemarch’

February: Murukami ‘Norwegian Wood’

March

April: Chinua Achebe ‘Things Change’

May: Alan Hollinghurst ‘The Line of Beauty’

June: Andrea Levy ‘Small Island’

July

August: Khaled Hosseini ‘Kite Runner’

September: Kate Atkinson ‘Case Histories’

October: Rose Tremain ‘The Colour’

November: John Harwood ‘Ghost Writer’

December: Jonathan Coe 'The Rotters' Club'

 

2004

August: Clare Morrall ‘Astonishing Splashes of Colour’

September: David Lodge ‘Thinks’

October: Zoe Heller ‘Notes on a Scandal’

November : Orhan Pamuk ‘My Name is Red’

December -