Books we have read

June 2005 Suggested By: Fiona Summary: Perhaps we're a little sick and twisted, but we lapped up Dunn's cult tale of a family of...

May 2005 Suggested By: Kate Summary: This book -- which originally gained fame as a website -- devotes a page to each of the 253 people...

April 2005 Suggested By: Mary Summary: An English porcelain dealer finds what appears to be a perfect wife on a trip to Copenhagen but is...

March 2005 Suggested By: Rebecca Rating: 6.0 out of 10 Summary: Gilbert Joseph is one of several thousand Jamaican RAF pilots who fought...

February 2005 Suggested By: Dawn Summary: A nameless woman is driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Written in...

January 2005 Suggested By: Tim Summary: How will humanity adapt to a warming planet, powerful multinationals, society schisms and science...

November 2004 Suggested By: Louisa Summary: A philosophical novel that traces the effects of two outsiders -- one a castaway and atheist,...

October 2004 Suggested By: Antony Rating: 2.0 out of 10 Summary: Chick-lit novelist gathers material for her new novel by her inviting...

September 2004 Suggested By: Mary Rating: 5.0 out of 10 Summary: Originally a newspaper column, this San Franciso-based set of short...

August 2004 Suggested By: Rebecca Summary: If donkeys giving birth to kittens and graphic torture are your thing then you might...

July 2004 Suggested By: Rebecca Summary: Does nostalgia make a great book? Magdalen College provided an apt backdrop to discuss David...

June 2004 Suggested By: Kate Summary: A slightly muted thumbs up was awarded to Kate Atkinson’s debut novel, chosen to redress the fact...

May 2004 Suggested By: Fiona Summary: Call us a sentimental old reading group, but we liked Dan Rhodes Littlest Hobo-esque novel with a...

April 2004 Suggested By: Kuldeep Summary: Airport fiction or best-of-genre? Dark, psychological thriller set in South London concerning a...

March 2004 Suggested By: Tom Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Alma Cogan was Britain's biggest-selling vocalist of the 1950s. Burns' novel...

February 2004 Suggested By: Paul Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Our unwritten 'no hardbacks' Reading Group rule was broken with this...

January 2004 Suggested By: Phil Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: This tale of an anally-retentive travel writer turned out to be a...

November 2003 Suggested By: Gordon Rating: 6.0 out of 10 Summary: Ballard's middle-class baiting reaction to the Hungerford Massacre....

October 2003 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Franzen's story of a mother's determination to get her splintered family...

September 2003 Suggested By: Michael Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Oprah Book Club favourite addressing German war guilt. The morality...

August 2003 Suggested By: Fiona Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: After a series of American novels, Friel's gritty short story came as a...

July 2003 Suggested By: Gordon Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Despite apprehension about from some members regarding science fiction, the...

June 2003 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 7.0 out of 10 Summary: Set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century, this book begins with...

May 2003 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 9.0 out of 10 Summary: A reading group favourite. Kingsolver’s atmospheric tale of a preacher’s...