Afternoon Book Club reading lists
Reading lists of books discussed at the Afternoon Book Club meetings.
Updated:
24/06/2021 6:12 p.m.
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June 2021
Topic: poetry
Illumination by Tyler Knott Gregson
Feathers Unfettered by Karen Zelas
Knucklebones by Sam Hunt
Now We Are Six by A A Milne
John Keats
Walter de la Mare
William Wordsworth
Now We Are Sixty by Christopher Matthew
I Must Go Down to the Seas Again by John Mansfield
The Red Sweet Wine of Youth by Nicholas Murray
The Pocket Mirror by Janet Frame
My Life with Dylan Thomas by Caitlin Thomas
The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas by Hilly Janes
Extra Life by Steven Johnson
Anna of All the Russias by Elaine Feinstein
Archy and Mahitabel by Don Marquis
A Field Officer’s Notebook by Dan Davin
Selected Poems by John Burnside
Opal Sunset by Clive James
Poetic Gems by William McGonagall
The Collected Verse of A B Paterson
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz
Poetry of the Nineties introduced by R K K Tornton
Georgian Poetry introduced by James Reeves
May 2021
Topic: broken
- Stay Where You Are and Leave by John Boyne
- Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley
- Broken Ground by Val McDermid
- Syria by John McHugo
- The Great War for Civilization by Robert Fisk
- Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon
- Family of Strangers by Haylee Darling
- Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
- Spring Time in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
April 2021
Topic: modern English woman writer
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
- A Face in the Crowd by Lynda La Plante
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Wideacre by Philippa Gregory
- How Do We Look?: the eye of faith by Mary Beard (in England)
- How Do We Look: the body, the divine and the question of civilisation by Mary Beard (in America)
- The Familiars by Stacey Halls
- Crushed by Kate Hamer
- Little Friends by Jane Shemilt
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Shifting the Mind’s Eye by Barbara S Carr
- From the Bottom of the Well by Barbara S Carr
- The Favour by Laura Vaughan
- Slough by Mick Herron
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