Book Group meets 1st Thursday of the month,
8.30 pm, for lively discussions on the books we've chosen.
For venue and other details, phone or email via Contacts page

Reading Group Programme 2008/9
Go To Good Reads Pages
also useful links for Readers		 Print Text version of
2008/9 Book Group List

4th September 2008
The Plot against America
by Philip Roth
Venue: J C		 What if America had not joined the was against Nazism? 2nd October 2008
Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky
Venue: S H 		A posthumously published wartime memoir

Psychological thriller with lots to think about (translation from Spanish 6th November 2008
A Heart so White
by Javier Marias
Venue: R T 		4th December 2008
Poetry - see selection:
Christina Rossetti
& Thos Hardy
or look online: Rossetti and Hardy
Venue: AC H
8th January 2009
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Venue: N S		 Greek immigrant growing up in USA in the wrong body 5th February 2009
Meet the Author
a chance to give feedback on a work in progress
Venue: S H		 Writing outside the author's comfort zone
Vivid evocation of rural Ontario 5th March 2009
Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Venue: M W		 We don't mind who, but is it well written? 2nd April 2009
Recommend a good
Biography **
Here's our Reviews
Venue: C F
7th May 2009
Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
Venue: R T		 Set in South Pacific, references Great Expectations 4th June 2009
PLANNING
next year's reads
Venue: J A		 Bring your ideas for next year's reading list
**There is a Reading Set of George Stevenson's biography available if anyone would like to use this for the Biography evening - let me know 2nd July 2009
Notes from an Exhibition
by Patrick Gale
Venue: Sheila H		 A (late) Cornwall artist's life is revealed through her art

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