2023

Our book group choice for March 2023 is Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes. Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up from a 66-year sleep in his subterranean Berlin bunker to find the Germany he knew entirely changed.

Our book group chioce for February 2023 is Auē by Becky Manawatu. Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s.

Our book group choice for January 2023 is The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller. A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.

Our book group choice for December 2022 is Nutshell by Ian McEwan. Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. It is a reinterpretation of the classic William Shakespeare play Hamlet as told by a fetus.

Our book group choice for November 2022 is Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J. Morgan. It is 1973 and Jude – known to her friends as Toto – has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds.

Our book group choice for October 2022 is The Offing by Benjamin Myers. One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood’s Bay.