Ordinary People
Our book group choice for June 2019 is Ordinary People by Diana Evans. South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution.
Spinning Heart
Our book group choice for May 2019 is Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan. In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town.
Night Walks
Our book group choice for April 2019 is Night Walks by Charles Dickens. Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets.
Travels with My Aunt
Our book group choice for March 2019 is Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene. It’s the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral.
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The Dud Avocado
Our book group choice for February 2019 is The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy. The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s.
House of Names
Our book group choice for January 2019 is House of Names by Colm Tóibín. On the day of his daughter’s wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.
Normal People
Our book group choice for December 2018 is Normal People by Sally Rooney. Connell and Marianne both grow up in the same town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds.
The Bell
Our book group choice for November 2018 is The Bell by Iris Murdoch. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Our book group choice for Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. In the book, Billy Pilgrim travels through time. He was captured by the Germans in World War II and witnessed the bombing of Dresden.
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The English Patient
Our book group choice for September 2018 is The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.
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