Afternoon Book Club reading lists

September 2019

Topic: mythology

• The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Know
• The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
• Dreamer’s Pool by Juliet Marillier
• The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
• The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather
• Celtic Myths and Legends by Fiona MacDonald
• The Book of Celtic Symbols by Joules Taylor
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Understand Greek Mythology by Steve Eddy and Claire Hamilton
• Heroes of the Round Table by Mike Dixon-Kennedy
• Maori Myth by A W Reed, illustrated by Roger Hart
• Usborne Illustrated Guide to Norse Myths and Legends
• Myths of the Pagan North by Christopher Abram
• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes 

August 2019

Topic: a children's book

• Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
• Tales from Oscar Wilde
• A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Lullaby Moon by Rosie Reeve
• Banquo’s Son by T K Roxborogh
• Bloodlines by T K Roxborogh
• Birthright by T K Roxborogh
• Guardian of the Bridge by Diana Harris
• Tangaroa’s Gift by Mere Whaanga
• The Green Fish of Ngahue by Ron Bacon and Mary Taylor
• Horeta and the Waka by Gordon Campbell
• The Pungapeople of Ninety Mile Beach by Barry Crump
• Singing Home the Whale by Mandy Hager
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Boyhood Stories of Master Painters and Musicians by Katherine Dunlap Cather
• The Way Home in the Night by Akiko Miyakoshi
• Front Desk by Kelly Yang 

July 2019

Topic: spies

• The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
• Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings
• No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings
• Spycraft by Robert Wallace and H Keith Melton
• The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
• Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
• Alan Turing: the enigma by Andrew Hodges
• The Story of Eli Zabar
• Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
• Setting France Ablaze by Peter Jacobs
• The Leper Spy by Ben Montgomery
• Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
• State of Emergency by Andy McNab
• Nancy Wake by Peter FitzSimons
• The Hero Who Betrayed His Country by Michael Weiss
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
• The Other Woman by Daniel Silva
• Transcription by Kate Atkinson
• The Lines We Leave Behind by Eliza Graham
• Angels by Peter Stanford
• Fallen Angels by Harold Bloom
• Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken
• Wings of Desire DVD by Wim Wenders
• The Italian Party by Christina Lynch