Afternoon Book Club reading lists
Reading lists of books discussed at the Afternoon Book Club meetings.
Updated:
16/12/2019 4:55 p.m.
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December 2019
Topic: a first novel
- Small Country by Gael Faye
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- Maigret by Georges Simenon
- The Nowhere Child by Christian White
- The People-faces by Lisa Cherrington
- Grand Slam Murders by R J Lee
- A Small Death in the Great Glen by A D Scott
- Under Water by Casey Barrett
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- Wulf by Hamish Clayton
- Playing with the Moon by Eliza Graham
- Dawn by Selahattin Demirtas
November 2019
Topic: water
- The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva
- Miracle at St Andrews by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
- Water Music by Margie Orford
- Icebergs and Glaciers by Seymour Simon
- The Voyage of the Icebergs by Eleanor Jones Harvey
- Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
- Water by Bapsi Sidhwa
- Erebus by Michael Palin
- Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes
- Fusion by Kate Richards
- Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
- Meltwater by Suzanne Ashmore
- Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Black Water by Cormac O’Keeffe
October 2019
Topic: animals
- The Dogs of Windcutter Down by David Kennard
- Shrek: the story of a Kiwi icon by John Perriam
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- Silent Footsteps by Sally Henderson
- Chardin ed. by Pierre Rosenburg
- English Animals by Laura Kaye
- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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