Reading List 2012-13

Monday 5^th March.    THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Presenter: Emma

 

Monday 2^nd April.   LINE OF BEAUTY by Alan Hollinghurst. Presenter: Danny

 

Monday 30^th April.  MISTRESS OF SPICE by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Presenter: Julie

(note that May Bank Holiday on the 7^th.  Have used 30^th to avoid having to meet on the 14^TH May which would leave it all a tad late).

Monday 11^th June (Bank Holiday on the 4^th).  VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD  by Jennifer Egan.  Presenter: Danny

 

Monday 2^nd July.  WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL by Jeannette Winterson . Presenter: Meg

 

Monday 3^rd September. THE GOOD TERRORIST by Doris Lessing.  Presenter: Amy

 

Monday 1^st October.  KEHUA! By Fay Weldon.  Presenter: Simon

 

Monday 5^th November.  DIRT MUSIC by Tim Winton .  Presenter: Chris

 

Monday 3^rd December.  PIGEON ENGLISH by Stephen Kelman .  Presenter: Ellen

 

Monday 14th^th January.  JERSUSALEM a play by Jez Butterworth.  Presenter: Davinder

 

Monday 11^th Feb: AGM

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Other Recommendations from the group:

 

Before I go to Sleep by S. J. Watson

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomsen

Red Dust Road by Jacky Kay

Cloud Street by Tim Winton

Remarkable Creatures by Tracey Chevalier

Ghost by Daylight by Janine Giovanni

Pure by Andrew Miller

The Dubliners by James Joyce

How Many Miles to Babylon Jennifer Johnston

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Hare with Amber eyes by Edmund DeVaal

The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovrik

Place of Execution by Val McDerot

State of Wonder b y Ann Patchett

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell