Tikipunga Book Club reading lists
Reading lists of books discussed at Tikipunga Book Club meetings.
Updated:
20/08/2019 5:21 p.m.
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August 2019
Topic: a person we admire
- To the Is-Land by Janet Frame
- Orwell: wintry conscience of a generation by Jeffrey Meyers
- Carve Her Name with Pride: the story of Violette Szabo by R J Minney
- It Wasn't Easy: memoirs of wartime women of the south compiled by Bracy Gardiner
- So Far, So Good by Mark Todd
- Michelle: a biography by Liza Mundy
- Jumping Ship by Glenn Colquhoun
- Viva Malvina!: the lives of Dame Malvina Major by Joy Tonks
- Upbeat: the story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq by Paul MacAlindin
- A Home-Grown Cook by Dame Alison Holst
- David Attenborough: naturalist visionary by Sonya Newland
July 2019
Topic: poetry
- Psalms for the Road by Joy Cowley
- One Hundred Poems and a Year by Bob Orr
- Landfall Literary Journal
- Fast Fibres ed by Piet Nieuwland and Olivia Macassey
- The Works by Pam Ayres
- The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse ed by Allen Curnow
- Just for Fun by Stella Wellington
- View from the South by Owen Marshall
- Penguin's Poems for Life ed by Laura Barber
- A Book of Nursery Rhymes (Zodiac Books) 1939
- Islander by Lyn Davidson
- Poems and Prose by Gerard Manly Hopkins
June 2019
Topic: animals
- The Dog with Seven Names by Dianne Wolfer
- The Lost War Horses of Cairo by Grant Hayter-Menzies
- My Life Among the Underdogs by Tia Torres
- Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
- A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner
- All Because of Henry by Nuala Gardner
- Old Blue by Mary Taylor
- A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell
- Dogs and Cats Have Souls Too by Jenny Smedley
- A Gift from Bob by James Bowen
- Cleo by Helen Brown
- Will You Love Me? by Barby Keel
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