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Perfect Books for Reading Groups
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The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Groff
July 2009 Debut of the Month.
We have a monster in the lake, we have the supernatural but this book is in essence a rattling good family saga, a tale of small-town America...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Handling the Undead
John Ajvide Lindqvist
In his first novel Let the Right One in the ‘undead’ were vampires. Lindquist moves on to zombies for his next novel, where, in the midst of a Stockholm heatwave, the terrifying news that the dead are waking up...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story
Carolyn Turgeon
Cinderella’s fairy godmother has been exiled on earth for 300 years for failing at her task back in the old story. She works in a book store, a lonely sad woman desperate to return to her world … and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
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The Fire Gospel
Michel Faber
This series of myths retold in contemporary and memorable ways has attracted a bevy of famous authors from Margaret Atwood to Jeanette Winterson. Now one of my favourite authors joins their ranks with his retelling of Prometheus’ story. I must...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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The Behaviour of Moths
Poppy Adams
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, a sad, haunting tale of sister rivalry, of the invasion of privacy, of resentment, of reclusive behaviour, secrets and lies as elderly sisters live together again after forty-seven years apart. The details on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2009
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This is How
M J Hyland
This is a fascinating and moving novel about a young man who sees the world from a slightly troubled point of view. From the beginning the signs are there that not all is quite as it should be in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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A Simple Act of Violence
R J Ellory
April 2009 Book of the Month.
R J Ellory is shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
This is a big book...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld
This is an absolute joy to read. It follows the life of an ordinary American girl, with a teenage tragedy hanging over her, who falls for an ambitious, rich and privileged boy whose sights are on the White House. It...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Guernica
Dave Boling
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 20 May 2009.
This is terrific, a literary family saga, and an epic tale of love and war straddling the dreadful bombing during the Spanish Civil War. It is big in every sense, its...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/04/2009
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Sashenka
Simon Montefiore
March 2009 Debut of the Month.
A big, sweeping, romantic adventure of half a century of turbulent Russian history beautifully told. It pulls at the heart strings while informing, it forces you through the pages...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2009
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Girls of Tender Age
Mary-ann Tirone Smith
Utterly brilliant memoir of growing up in 50’s America, of a carefree, rough-and-tumble childhood until a paedophile brings fear to the neighbourhood. I cannot recommend this highly enough. The author is a crime writer and the structure of this work,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2008
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Did you know that the first recorded reading groups were among women working in factories in the nineteenth century? And now, according to research undertaken a few years ago, there are well over 50,000 groups in the UK.
There are myriad groups of friends meeting in each other's homes to chew over good novels. But there are also thousands of prison, online, teenage, library, and workplace groups. And they read everything from literary classics to technical manuals!
Of course, if you are in a book group, choosing what to read next can be a serious matter as not every book has subject matter that can really be dicussed. So to help you Lovereading has decided to lend a hand by, each month, selecting a number of books we feel are perfect and will give your group a rewarding discussion as well as a rewarding read.
As one reader has said:
How has it taken me so long to find this treasure of a site? As an avid reader and member of a book group you will be invaluable in selecting future reads. Thanks again for a wonderful site. Angela Whiley
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Home
Marilynne Robinson
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
Jack Broughton returns to his family home after twenty years away. The book tackles the subject of family relationships and how they affect...
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The Senator's Wife
Sue Miller
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 24 June 2009.
A story of two couples and the relationships that build between them. Although the book may start off slowly it draws...
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The Lighted Rooms
Richard Mason
A number of themes are covered in this book from aging, to family relationships to war.Joan is suffering from Alzheimer's, her high flying daughter has put in her...
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The Library of Shadows
Mikkel Birkegaard
A literary conspiracy thriller where a secret society of people, using an antiquarian bookshop as their headquarters, is infiltrated by a member out to misuse their power, for these people...
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Once Upon a Time in England
Helen Walsh
Award winner at the Somerset Maugham Awards 2009.
A stunning novel set in the 1970’s and 80’s covering a myriad of social topics from mixed race marriage, homosexuality, drugs, race, family...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
John Boyne
Author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas turns to a nautical adventure for his next offering and takes it a step beyond the classic tale, expanding on the...
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