Books we have read since 2004
2024
January: ‘This Must Be the Place’ by Maggie O’Farrell
February: French Braid by Anne Tyler
March: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
April:
2023
January: Ferdinand Mount ‘Kiss Myself Goodbye’
February : ‘Small Pleasures’ by Clare Chambers
March: 'Small Things Like These' Claire Keegan
April: ‘Violeta’ by Isabel Allende
May: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
June: ‘Grey Bees’ by Andrey Kurkov
July : ‘The Midnight Library’ by Matt Haig
August: no meeting
September: ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ by Anne Brontë
October: ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ by Bonnie Garmus
November: ‘Trust’ by Hernan Diaz
December : Christmas lunch and bran tub books
2022
January: Barbara Pym ‘Less than Angels’
February: Jan Morris ‘Conundrum’
March: Brit Bennett 'The Vanishing Half'
April : Christy Lefteri 'The Beekeeper of Aleppo'
May : Elif Shafak 'The Bastard of Istanbul'
June : Maggie O'Farrell 'Hamnet'
July : Margaret 'Testaments'
August: No meeting
September: Laura Cumming 'On Chapel Sands'
October : Sarah Winman 'Still Life'
November : 'Oh William' Elizabeth Strout
2021
January: Jean Rhys 'Wide Sargasso Sea'
February : Penelope Fitzgerald ‘The Gate of Angels’
March : Barbara Kingsolver ‘Unsheltered’
April: Pat Barker ‘The Silence of the Girls’
May : Jeanine Cummins 'American Dirt'
September: Philip Hensher ‘The Friendly Ones’
October: Richard Wright ‘Native Son’
November: Rebecca Stott ‘In the Days of Rain’
2020
January: Adam Kay 'This is Going to Hurt'
February : Sarah Winman 'A Year of Marvellous Ways'
March: Tom Robb Smith 'Child 44'
April: William Boyd 'Ordinary Thunderstorms'
May: Melvyn Bragg 'The Soldier's Return'
June: Guiseppi Tomasi di Lampedusa 'The Leopard'
July: Tara Westover 'Educated'
August: No meeting
September: Sally Rooney ‘Normal People’
October: Jean-Paul Didierlaurent 'The Reader on the 6.27'
November : Bernadine Evaristo 'Girl, Woman, Other'
2019
January: Rose Tremain 'the Road Home'
February: Anna Hope 'The Ballroom'
March: Ian McEwan 'The Children Act'
April: Angela Carter 'The Bloody Chamber'
May : Kent Haruf 'Plainsong'
June: Kamila Shamsie 'Homefire'
July: Margaret Atwood 'Hagseed'
September : Jokha al-Harthi "Celestial Bodies'
October: Amor Towles 'A Gentleman in Moscow'
November: Raynor Winn "The Salt Path'
December : No meeting. Christmas lunch January 6th 2020
2018
January: Helen Dunmore 'Birdcage Walk'
February: Ruth Hogan 'The Keeper of Lost Things'
March: Elizabeth Strout 'Olive Kitteridge'
April: Anthony Doerr 'All the Light We Cannot See'
May: Margaret Drabble ' The Dark Flood Rises'
June: Susan Hill 'Howard's End is on the Landing'
July Graham Swift 'Mothering Sunday'
August: No meeting
September: Kate Atkinson 'A God in Ruins'
October: Gail Honeyman 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine'
November: Bruce Chatwin 'On the Black Hill'
December :No meeting Christmas lunch in January 2019
2017
January: Elena Ferrante ‘My Brilliant Friend’
February: Elizabeth Jane Howard ‘Falling’
March: Kent Haruf ‘Our Souls at Night’
April: Graeme Simsion 'The Rosie Project’
May: No meeting
June: Sue Monk Kidd ‘The Invention of Wings’
July: John Williams 'Stonor'
August: No meeting
September: E.M. Forster 'A Room with a View'
October: John Boyne 'A History of Loneliness
November: Lisa Genova 'Still Alice'
December Christmas meeting - 11th at 6.30pm for a meal at The Corner Cupboard- CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW