Walsham le Willows

Reading Group

The Reading Group was formed in early 2003 by a group of people who were interested in discussing with others the books they had been reading and extending the range of authors and genres they were familiar with. The group now has in excess of one dozen members and a large back catalogue of modern fiction, classic novels, science-fiction, biography and travel books that have been shared. Monthly meetings are held on a Friday evening in various members' houses where they discuss the last month's book and choose new titles over a drink or two and nibbles. The format of the meeting is very informal with everyone free to speak as little or as much as they wish and of course it is always more lively when opinion is divided on the merits of the book under discussion. The books are either bought individually or they may be borrowed from the local library. The reading group does hold a library card which entitles them to borrow books for an extended period. There are no fees but every member takes a turn in hosting one of the monthly meetings and with the present membership this would then occur roughly once each year. New members are always welcome, and for more details contact Janette:

Future Titles and Authors

Date Author Title
27th November 2009 at 8.00pm at Riverside Alice Munroe Runaway
17th December 2009 at 8.00pm at the Newells (to be confirmed) Patrick Gale Notes from an Exhibition
22nd January 2010 at the Hardings Markus Zusak The Book Thief

At the January meeting we will each nominate a book from our festive gifts/reading to recommend to the group. We can then draw up a list for the rest of the coming year!!!!

Previous Titles

Author Title
Janice Frey A Million Little Pieces
Sarah Dunnant In the Company of Others
Kate Atkinson Case Histories
Amos Oz A Tale of Love and Darkness
Anton Chekhov Lady with Lapdog and other stories
Adrei Makine Le Testament Francais
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler
Bruce Chatwin Song Lines
Peter Carey The True History of the Ned Kelly Gang
Tim Winton Breath
Miles Franklin My Brilliant Career
Doris Pilkington Garimara Rabbit Proof Fence
Khalid Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns
David Mitchell Black Swan Green
William Boyd Brazzaville Beach
Ann Tyler Breathing Lessons
Amitav Ghosh The Glass Palace
George Orwell Burmese Days
Emma Larkin Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop
Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
The Book of Illusions
Jonathan Raban Badlands
Carlos Castaneda The Art of Dreaming
William Boyd Restless
Sarah Waters Night Watch
A.M. Holmes This Book will Save your life
Anthony Trollope The Way We Live Now
Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves
Carlos Castaneda The Art of Dreaming
Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys
Joseph O’Connor Star of the Sea
Peter Ackroyd English Music
Monica Ali Brick Lane
Simon Armitage Little Green Man
Margaret Atwood Surfacing
Beryl Bainbridge According to Queeney
Justin Cartwright White Lightning
Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring
JM Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians
Michael Cunningham The Hours
Louis de Berniere Birds Without Wings
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Sebastian Falkes Human Traces
Karen Joy Fowler Jane Austen Book Club
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
Kazuo Ishiguro When we were orphans
Henry James The Bostonians
TE Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness
Andrea Levy Small Island
Anne Marie Mac Donald The Way the Crow Flies
Yann Martel Life of Pi
Alexander McCall Smith No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Ian McEwan Atonement
Jon McGregor If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
Ann Michaels Fugitive Pieces
Julie Myerson Something might happen
Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveller’s Wife
Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red
Ann Patchett The Magician’s Assistant
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
Carol Shields Unless
Paullina Simons Tully
Dava Sobel Galileo’s Daughter
Abi Smith The Accidental
Manil Suri Death of Vishnu
Graham Swift Waterland
Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife
Rose Tremain Music and Silence
William Trevor The Hill Bachelors (short stories)
William Trevor Lucy Gault
Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons
John Updike Beck is Back
Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels
Virgina Woolf Mrs. Dalloway

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