Books we have read

Apr 10, 2009

Trumpet - Jackie Kay

May 2009 Suggested By: Kate

Mar 13, 2009

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

April 2009 Suggested By: Louisa

Jan 9, 2009

The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene

February 2009 Suggested By: Fiona

Nov 14, 2008

Devil May Care - Sebastian Faulks

January 2009 Suggested By: Suzy Summary: Faulks take up the challenge of a James Bond novel. On the whole, we thought that he dumbed...

Oct 10, 2008

After Dark - Haruki Murakami

November 2008 Suggested By: Mary Summary: Latest offering from the surreal pen of Murakami.

Sep 12, 2008

Daughters of the House - Michele Roberts

October 2008 Suggested By: Pip

Aug 8, 2008

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

September 2008 Suggested By: Tim Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Perhaps the start of term feeling was the cause of our torpor. Pip put on...

Jun 13, 2008

The Well of Lost Plots – Jasper Fforde

July 2008 Suggested By: Phil

May 9, 2008

On Chesil Beach - Ian McKewan

June 2008 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Apr 11, 2008

An Ice-cream War - William Boyd

May 2008 Suggested By: Louisa Rating: 7.0 out of 10

Feb 8, 2008

The First Man - Albert Camus

March 2008 Suggested By: Fiona

Jan 11, 2008

What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt

February 2008 Suggested By: Louisa Summary: This gave rise to mixed feelings - some of us really enjoyed the dissection of relationships,...

Nov 9, 2007

Engleby - Sebastian Faulks

January 2008 Suggested By: Mary Summary: This one resulted in some lively discussion, and a fair bit of leaning on Phil's professional...

Oct 12, 2007

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday

November 2007 Suggested By: Becca Summary: Some of us found this book a bit light, fluffy and inconsequential, though the political...

Sep 14, 2007

Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky

October 2007 Suggested By: Tim Summary: This one divided opinion - many of us really hated it - in particular, its bittiness and the...

Aug 10, 2007

Helpless - Barbara Gowdy

September 2007 Suggested By: Kate

Jul 13, 2007

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

August 2007 Suggested By: Phil

May 11, 2007

My Once Upon a Time - Diran Adebayo

June 2007 Suggested By: Fiona

Apr 13, 2007

If Nobody Speak of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor

May 2007 Suggested By: Louisa Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Summary: Debut novel remembering abnormal events on an otherwise ordinary street. We...

Mar 9, 2007

Accordion Crimes - Annie Proulx

April 2007 Suggested By: Mary Summary: A story of shifting identities in a modern mongrel society. Whilst the first story proved to be a...

Feb 9, 2007

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

March 2007 Suggested By: Phil Summary: The nineteenth century classic tale of aestheticism, hedonism and hiding your sins in the attic....

Jan 12, 2007

Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold

February 2007 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 8.0 out of 10 Summary: A fictionalised biography of real life magician Charles Carter and his...

Dec 8, 2006

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

January 2007 Suggested By: Becca Summary: The story of a twelve year old Afghani boy and his attempts to atone for his past sins. People...

Sep 8, 2006

Arthur & George - Julian Barnes

October 2006 Suggested By: Tim Summary: Fictionalised account of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's quest to prove the innocence of unjustly...