Books we read.
Our book group choice for June 2017 is Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace. Although Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a collection of short stories, its unifying threads make it an almost-novel.
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Our book group choice for May 2017 is Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh. Adam Fenwick-Symes is a man of the world: a novelist, recently returned from Paris, and one of the “bright young people.”
Our book group choice for March 2017 is Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. In a very near future – oh, let’s say next Tuesday – a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse.
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Our book group choice for March 2017 is Hag Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood. Hag-Seed is a re-visiting of Shakespeare’s play of magic and illusion, The Tempest, and will be the fourth novel in the Hogarth Shakespeare series.
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Our book group choice for February 2017 is Golden Hill by Francis Spufford. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering.
Our book group choice for January 2017 is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood – where even greater pain awaits.
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Our book group choice for December 2016 is The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene. For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fête was a joyful step back into adolescence.
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Our book group choice for November 2016 is Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler. Everything began for Kenton with a game of dice which left him broke.
Our book group choice for Oct 2016 is As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee. It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune.
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Our book group choice for September 2016 is London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins. Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins’s London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second World War.
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