Books we have read

November 2007 Suggested By: Becca Summary: Some of us found this book a bit light, fluffy and inconsequential, though the political...

October 2007 Suggested By: Tim Summary: This one divided opinion - many of us really hated it - in particular, its bittiness and the...

September 2007 Suggested By: Kate

August 2007 Suggested By: Phil

June 2007 Suggested By: Fiona

May 2007 Suggested By: Louisa Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Summary: Debut novel remembering abnormal events on an otherwise ordinary street. We...

April 2007 Suggested By: Mary Summary: A story of shifting identities in a modern mongrel society. Whilst the first story proved to be a...

March 2007 Suggested By: Phil Summary: The nineteenth century classic tale of aestheticism, hedonism and hiding your sins in the attic....

February 2007 Suggested By: Kate Rating: 8.0 out of 10 Summary: A fictionalised biography of real life magician Charles Carter and his...

January 2007 Suggested By: Becca Summary: The story of a twelve year old Afghani boy and his attempts to atone for his past sins. People...

October 2006 Suggested By: Tim Summary: Fictionalised account of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's quest to prove the innocence of unjustly...

September 2006 Suggested By: Paul Summary: Cuckoo in the nest story exposing the cracks beneath a typical middle class family veneer. We...

August 2006 Suggested By: Mary Summary: Sexual self-help book by the best-selling author of The Alchemist. Brazilian woman goes to...

July 2006 Suggested By: Rebecca Summary: A powerful, blackly funny examination of the lives of ordinary people in late 1970s Northern...

June 2006 Suggested By: Fiona Summary: Partly fictionalised account of a mother's experiences with her autistic child. The author joined...

May 2006 Suggested By: Kate Summary: This debut novel from Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed coming of age story set in Idaho mountain...

April 2006 Suggested By: Louisa Summary: Two invisible creatures, created by one magically imaginative or emotionally troubled young...

March 2006 Suggested By: Phil Rating: 9.0 out of 10 Summary: A saga of brotherly and sisterly love, crocuses and Obscure Objects, this...

January 2006 Suggested By: Phil Summary: A historian-turned-diplomat tells his daughter the creepy story of his obsession with finding...

November 2005 Suggested By: Tim Summary: A middle-aged civil servant's life is transformed when his new, young lover introduces him to...

October 2005 Suggested By: Dawn Summary: An American Jew arrives in the Ukraine to track down the woman who saved his grandfather from...

September 2005 Suggested By: Mary Summary: Book based around eight lectures delivered by an aging, fictional Australian novelist. After...

August 2005 Suggested By: Paul Summary: A grieving East End woman writes to Osama Bin Laden after losing her family in a terrorist attack...

July 2005 Suggested By: Rebecca Summary: When artist Simon Dykes wakes after a late night of routine debauchery, he discovers that his...