Books 1 Group
Time - 10:00
Week - Second
Day - Wednesday
Group Leader(s) - Chris Harman
Venue - Member's Home
Vacancies - Waiting List

Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month AM

This group has been meeting since 2010. Books of common interest are chosen and then discussed by members at subsequent meetings.

Books read or to be read in 2025

January: Orphans of the Storm by Celia Imrie

February: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

March: Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan

April:  You are Here David Nicholls

May: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

June: The Dentist by Tim Sullivan

July: Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

August: The Liberation of Brigid Dunne by Patricia Scanlan 

September: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin

October: Long Island by Colm Toibin

November: The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden 

2024 got off to a good start with 

January Read:  Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

February Read: Enigma by Robert Harris

March Read: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

April Read: The Chamomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

May Read: Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

June - no meeting

July Read: Magpie by Elizabeth Day

August Read: Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngston

September Read: Burial of Ghosts by Anne Cleeves

October Read: The Little House by Philippa Gregory

November Read: The world at my Feet by Catherine isaac

December Read: The War Between the Tates by Alison Lurie

 

Books we have read so far in 2023 include:The Dickens Boy - Thomas Keneally, The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman, The Butterfly Room - Lucinda Riley, The Golden Rule - Amanda Craig.

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym for June

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus for July

It Starts with Us and Ends with Us  by Colleen  Hoover for August

Vos by Patrick White for September

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris for October 

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy for November

Still Life by Sarah Winman for December