Afternoon Book Club reading lists

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

June  2019

Topic:a novel that became a film

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
• The Ghost by Robert Harris
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
• The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
• The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
• Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan
• Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes
• Bulibasha: King of the gypsies by Witi Ihimaera
• Mahana (DVD based on Bulibasha)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
• Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding