Our book group choice for June 2018 is A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes. It’s a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
Our book group choice for May 2018 is The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz. Echoing Socrates’ time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary behaviour.
Our book group choice for April 2018 is The Century Girls by Tessa Dunlop. In 2018 Britain celebrated the centenary of women getting the vote; during the intervening ten decades the lives of women in this country have been transformed.
Our book group choice for March 2018 is Man With a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige. A gull falls from the sky and strikes a council worker on the beach below.
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Our book group choice for February 2018 is Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
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Our book group choice for January 2018 is The Last Days of Disco by David F. Ross. Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist.
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Our book group choice for December 2017 is The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth. Armagh, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest.
Our book group choice for November 2017 is My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation.
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Our book group choice for October 2017 is Elmet by Fiona Mozley. Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful.
Our book group choice for July 2017 is The Power by Naomi Alderman. The world is a recognisable place: there’s a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family.
