I, Claudius
Our book group choice for January 2016 is I, Claudius by Robert Graves. From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54.
A Country Doctor’s Notebook
Our book group choice for December 2015 is A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light.
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Our book group choice for November 2015 is The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine- bottling factory.
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Beyond Black
Our book group choice for October 2015 is Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her.
The Martian
Our book group choice for September 2015 is The Martian by Andy Weir. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
The Children Act
Our book group choice for July 2015 is The Children Act by Ian McEwan. Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law.
In the Approaches
Our book group choice for June 2015 is In the Approaches by Nicola Barker. Nicola Barker’s readers are primed to expect surprises, but her tenth novel delivers mind-meld on a metaphysical scale
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Our book group choice for May 2015 is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. In 1799, Jacob de Zoet disembarks on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company’s remotest trading post in a Japan otherwise closed to the outside world. A junior clerk, his task is to uncover evidence of the previous Chief Resident’s
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High-Rise
Our book group choice for April 2015 is High-Rise by J.G. Ballard. When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors.
The Girl in the Photograph
Our book group choice for March 2016 is The Girl in the Photograph by Kate Riordan. The novel tells the tales of women in two different eras – the 1890s and 1930s – and how their lives seem to be entwined by fate.
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