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Tynedale

Book Group 4

Status:Active, full but can join waiting list
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When: Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm
3rd Thursday, 2.00-3.30

Convenor: Julia 07894 225587

Our meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month. The start time is 2.00pm and is held at members' homes.

Our group was formed in 2018. Members suggest books to be read at subsequent meetings, and we take turns to introduce the book,. We read and discuss a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction books, biographies, modern novels and classic works. We are a friendly and welcoming group and will often have lively and interesting discussions .

Below is a list of all the books we have read since the start of the book group

Books we have read

East West Street by Philippe Sands

An Equal Music by Vikram Seth

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Nature's Engraver (a life of Thomas Bewick) by Jenny Uglow

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

Conundrum by Jan Morris

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Waiting for the Last Bus by Richard Holloway

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Circe by Madeline Miller

A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

The Emigrants by W G Sebald

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernarine Evaristo

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Charles Dickens - A Life: by Claire Tomalin

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift

Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Apeirogen by Callum McCann

Wilding by Isabella Tree

William Armstrong (Magician of the North) by Henrietta Heald

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Tinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession

Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton

Old Baggage by Lissa Evans

The Magician by Colm Toibin

The Promise by Damon Galgut

Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

Grey Bees by Audrey Kurkov

The Machine Stops by E M Forster

The Bastard of Instanbul by Elif Shafak

Corridors of Power by C P Snow

Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford

Still life by Sarah Winman

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaaje

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

Return of a King by William Dalrymple

Oh William by Elizabeth Strout

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Open City by Teju Cole

Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell

Thunderclap by Laura Cumming

On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming

Lanterns Across the Snow by Susan Hill

The Romantic by William Boyd

The Distant Echo by Val McDermid

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Clear by Carys Davies

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Look at Me by Anita Brookner

Broken Threads by Mishal Husain

The Taste of Sorrow Jude Morgan

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The Ghost by Robert Harris

Village Christmas by Laurie Lee

Her Sister's Killer by Mari Hannah

Humankind by Rutger Bregman

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris



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