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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our book group choice for November 2013 is Stoner by John Williams. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.

Our book choice for Christmas 2013 is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.