An Awfully Big Adventure
Our book group choice for December 2020 is An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge. It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company.
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2020
Cold Comfort Farm
Our book choice for November 2020 is Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. A wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set
Farewell, My Lovely
Our book group choice for October 2020 is Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. It is the story of private detective Philip Marlowe. The novel follows Marlowe’s movements in and around Bay City, a fictional town in California not far from Los Angeles.
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Everything Under
Our book group choice for September 2020 is Everything Under by Daisy Johnson. The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most.
The Crossway
Our book group choice for August 2020 is The Crossway by Guy Stagg. In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him.
Golden Child
Our book group choice for July 2020 is Golden Child by Claire Adam. Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life.
Convenience Store Woman
Our book group choice for June 2020 is Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her.
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They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
Our book group choice for May 2020 is They Shoot Horses Don’t They? by Horace McCoy. The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms—a dark side that Horace McCoy’s classic American novel powerfully captures.
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All the Pretty Horses
Our book group choice for April 2020 is All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers.
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Machines Like Me
Our book choice for March 2020 is Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
