Exposure by Helen Dunmore. One of our favorite authors kicks of our book group with a deceptively simple masterpiece. 7 PM – 5th October – The Old Ship Hotel Padstow. London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height....
French Rhapsody By: Antoine Laurain In France a middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter thirty-three years too late. Lost in the Paris postal system for decades, the letter from Polydor, dated 1983, offers a recording contract to The Holograms,...
The Cellar by Minette Walters She’s never been outside, doesn’t know how to read or write, and cannot speak English. At least that’s what the Songolis believe. But Muna is far cleverer – and her plans more terrifying – than...
The Man Booker prize winner was a real challenge- cleverly written but hard to get into. Very few of us managed to finish it in time! A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that...
A lost masterpiece with a secret history is delivered to a London art gallery in 1967. The truth about the painting lies in 1936 and a large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of a renowned art...
We decided to try an older title this month but quite a challenge as its rather long! A young woman murdered in a run-down Manhattan hotel. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering sun of Saudi Arabia. Smouldering human remains...
This month we have chosen a debut novel set in the summer heatwave of 1976. A quirky, moving tale, part ‘whodunnit’, part coming of age, which makes us think about ourselves and others more deeply. Mrs. Creasy is missing and...
The latest novel from the ever popular Rose Tremain. Growing up in a small town in post second world war Switzerland, Gustav is lonely until he meets Anton and an intense lifelong friendship begins. However, Anton fails to understand how...
A few lies never hurt anyone. Right? Wrong. Paul has a plan.He has a vision of a better future, and he’s going to make it happen. If it means hiding or exaggerating a few things here and there, no harm...
Australia is in the grip of a terrible drought when tensions in the small town of Kiewarra become unbearable following the murder of three members of the same family. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler has committed suicide after killing his wife...
THE POPE IS DEAD! Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals are meeting in conclave to cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they are ambitious. And they have rivals....
In London 1893, Cora Seaborne begins her new life as a widow with a mixture of sadness and relief. Retreating to the countryside, she encounters rumours of the ‘Essex Serpent’, a creature of folklore said to have returned to roam...
‘A modern Graham Greene’ – David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends’ home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring...
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up following every step of the French Revolution with interest, but she has recently married a man who has everything to lose from social...
Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. He is one of 1001 children born at the midnight hour who all have special gifts and are...
Being a cop is in John Rebus’s blood. So when he ‘s asked to help with the investigation into the death of a senior lawyer whose body was found alongside a threatening note, Rebus doesn’t need long to consider his...
Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he...
Barbara Kingsolver’s acclaimed international bestseller tells the story of an American missionary family in the Congo during a poignant chapter in African history. It spins the tale of the fierce evangelical Baptist, Nathan Price, who takes his wife and four...
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the...
The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream . . . 1912. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not...
Faith Severn’s life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it. Now, the time has come to piece her story together. What secret caused...
It’s 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set...
