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WhatsApp Book Club
Welcome to the WhatsApp Book Club (formerly known as Twitter Book Club)
(it's like a normal Book Club, but it's on WhatsApp!)
Each month , Book Club meets up on a WhatsApp to discuss a new book.
We carry on chatting, usually over a couple of days, before giving the book marks out of ten.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN.
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Further down this page you can see the books we've chosen previously, in order of popularity.
Circe still holds the number 1 spot!
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HERE ARE THE NEXT FEW BOOKS.
I'VE ADDED LINKS TO EACH OF THEM, SO YOU CAN GET A BIT MORE INFORMATION
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Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly (Tuesday October 6th) - INFO HERE
 When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants. While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods.
As he slips between his old life and this new one, his fixation grows into something more powerful. The poet, his Kingfisher, is his sole focus. He is hypnotised. But when simultaneous illnesses threaten to destroy the precarious reality he clings to, he’s forced to question what he can and cannot take from someone. This is a novel about grief, power and desire – and the tangles in between that make up a life.
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (Tuesday November 3rd) - INFO HERE
 Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. But this is not his story. Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.
Yet now he awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. This is the story of the women who survive. As the clock ticks down, three women - a mother, a sister, a detective - reckon with the choices that culminate in tragedy, the impact on those in its wake, and the possibility of redemption.
Moderation by Elaine Castillo (Tuesday December 1st) - INFO HERE
 Sometimes people just..something Girlie Delmundo works a day job as a content moderator, removing the very worst that makes it on to the internet. She's one of the best at it, too, so it's no surprise when she's given a big salary rise to start moderating its new venture: virtual-reality theme parks, lush simulations of civilizations long since dead.
But as she begins to explore the intricate worlds that she moderates, Girlie notices two deeply troubling things: that there might be something much darker built into the very code of the company, and that William, technically her new boss, a man whose barriers are as mighty as her own, might just be that long-forgotten thing... Girlie's type.
Universality by Natasha Brown (Tuesday January 5th) - INFO HERE
 On an abandoned Yorkshire farm, a group of hippie-anarchists have taken up residence to build a new society. When their leader is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar, an ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack. The longread exposé she writes goes viral - but is there more to the story than meets the eye?Universality unravels the messy aftermath of that exposé through the perspective of each of the mystery's key players: a self-pitying banker, a columnist with secrets, a cult leader with dreams, and a fugitive with nothing left to lose.
The follow-up to Natasha Brown's Assembly is a twisty, slippery story of media, class, power and truth. Cutting through the noise, it reveals British society today for what it is.
My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby (Tuesday February 2nd) - INFO HERE
 "I handle the bodies."Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted.
When a beloved local minister is found dead, his parishioners ask Nathan to make sure the death isn't swept under the rug. What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface.
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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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 24th Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
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 17th On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia
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. Meeting Tuesday April 21st Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it. So what if it means stealing Athena’s final manuscript? So what if it means ‘borrowing’ her identity? And so what if the first lie is only the beginning… Finally, June has the fame she always deserved. But someone is about to expose her… What happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.
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LAST MONTH'S BOOK
The book chosen was...
OFFSHORE BY PENEOPED FITZGERALD.
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PREVIOUS BOOK CLUB CHOICES IN ORDER (HIGHEST SCORE FIRST)
 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
 My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithewaite. 6.5/10
 The Maiden by Kate Foster. 6.5/10
 Eurotrash by Christian Kracht 6.5/10
Tracle Walker by Alan Garner. 6.5/10  Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardie 6.3/10
 Portable Door by Tom Holt 6.3/10
I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel. 6/10  Normal People by Sally Rooney. 5.9/10
Keeping the House by Tice Cin. 4.7/10
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