Books we have read

May 14, 2004

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson

June 2004 Suggested By: Kate Summary: A slightly muted thumbs up was awarded to Kate Atkinson’s debut novel, chosen to redress the fact...

Apr 9, 2004

Timoleon Vieta Come Home - Dan Rhodes

May 2004 Suggested By: Fiona Summary: Call us a sentimental old reading group, but we liked Dan Rhodes Littlest Hobo-esque novel with a...

Mar 12, 2004

The Treatment - Mo Hayder

April 2004 Suggested By: Kuldeep Summary: Airport fiction or best-of-genre? Dark, psychological thriller set in South London concerning a...

Feb 13, 2004

Alma Cogan - Gordon Burn

March 2004 Suggested By: Tom Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Alma Cogan was Britain's biggest-selling vocalist of the 1950s. Burns' novel...

Jan 9, 2004

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon

February 2004 Suggested By: Paul Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Our unwritten 'no hardbacks' Reading Group rule was broken with this...

Nov 14, 2003

The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler

January 2004 Suggested By: Phil Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: This tale of an anally-retentive travel writer turned out to be a...

Oct 10, 2003

Running Wild - JG Ballard

November 2003 Suggested By: Gordon Rating: 6.0 out of 10 Summary: Ballard's middle-class baiting reaction to the Hungerford Massacre....

Oct 10, 2003

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

October 2003 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Franzen's story of a mother's determination to get her splintered family...

Aug 8, 2003

The Reader - Bernard Schlinck

September 2003 Suggested By: Michael Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Oprah Book Club favourite addressing German war guilt. The morality...

Jul 11, 2003

Mr Alfred MA - George Friel

August 2003 Suggested By: Fiona Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: After a series of American novels, Friel's gritty short story came as a...

Jun 13, 2003

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick

July 2003 Suggested By: Gordon Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Despite apprehension about from some members regarding science fiction, the...

May 8, 2003

Time Will Darken It - William Maxwell

June 2003 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century, this book begins with...

Apr 10, 2003

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

May 2003 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 9.0 out of 10 Summary: A reading group favourite. Kingsolver’s atmospheric tale of a preacher’s...

Mar 14, 2003

Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem

April 2003 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Darn. Lethem’s detective novel seen through the eyes of a sufferer of...

Feb 14, 2003

All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland

March 2003 Suggested By: Paul Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: In a cosy corner of the Trout Inn, we concluded that Coupland's...

Jan 10, 2003

Miss Garnet’s Angel - Salley Vickers

February 2003 Suggested By: Camilla Rating: 5.0 out of 10 Summary: A boisterous book group saw Salley Vicker’s novel left with multiple...

Nov 8, 2002

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

January 2003 Suggested By: Kuldeep Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: John Irving’s rambling but enjoyable novel about a boy who discovers...

Oct 10, 2002

Ghostwritten - David Mitchell

November 2002 Suggested By: Dawn Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: David Mitchell’s debut novel weaved together a number of tales that...

Sep 12, 2002

Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

October 2002 Suggested By: Paul Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Attempts were made to get local author Phillip Pullman along, but we...

Aug 8, 2002

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

September 2002 Suggested By: Phil Rating: 8.0 out of 10 Summary: Donna Tartt’s cult novel featuring a murderous group of Ancient Greek...

Jul 12, 2002

Atonement - Ian McKewan

August 2002 Suggested By: Michael Rating: 8.0 out of 10 Summary: McKewan’s tale of a child's lie that leads to disastrous repercussions...