Next Meeting Tuesday January 20th

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

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The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems.

Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone’s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming.

Meeting Tuesday February 24^th

Figures in a Landscape by Barry England

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Two men are on the run.

They have four hundred miles to go across hostile territory. Soldiers on the ground track them day and night, a helicopter circles above, life becomes a second-by-second fight for survival. Each muscle movement, drop of sweat, glance and instinct matters.

Every second counts. Through long slogs across country, risky raids for supplies, moments of sheer panic, and under the intense pressure to survive, an unbreakable bond between two men is forged. This stunningly written, adrenaline-pumping novel is a little-known classic of its genre.

Meeting Tuesday March 17^th  

On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia

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On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prison’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are released, the warden is armed with rifles, and the hunt begins.
Every man plans his escape, not knowing if his end will come at the hands of a familiar face, or from the unknown dangers beyond the prison walls. Ana Paula Maia has once again delivered a bracing vision of our potential for violence, and our collective failure to account for the consequences of our social and political action, or inaction. No crime is committed out of view for this novelist, and her raw, brutal power enlists us all as witness. 

Meeting Tuesday April 21st   

Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang

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When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it.

 

Circe by Madeline Miller. 8.4/10

 

The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier. 7.8/10

 

 

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. 7.7/10

 

 

 

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin. 7.5/10

 

 

Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad. 7.4/10

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. 7.4/10

 

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 7.3/10

 

 

Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson 7.3/10

 

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. 7.1/10

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. 6.9/10 

 

 

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. 6.7/10

 

 

I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel. 6/10

 

  

Normal People by Sally Rooney. 5.9/10