Union Street
Our book choice for October 2014 is Union Street by Pat Barker. Vivid, bawdy and bitter, Pat Barker’s first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Our book choice for September 2014 is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Our book choice for August 2014 is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960.
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The Maltese Falcon
Our book choice for July 2014 is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby.
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Dark Entries
Our book choice for June 2014 is Dark Entries by Robert Aickman. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult.
A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine
Our book choice for May 2014 is A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine by Tony Benn. The book chronicles both the public and the personal events of the last decade of his life in Westminster and his ‘retirement’ thereafter.
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Autobiography by Morrissey
Our book choice for April 2014 is Autobiography by Morrissey. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.
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The Invisible Circus
Our book choice for March 2014 is The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan. In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen.
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Life After Life
Our book group choice for February 2014 is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife.
A Christmas Carol
Our book group choice for January 2014 is A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. It’s a classic tale well known by all. Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn’t like…and hardly a man he does.
