Julian Barnes: The Noise of Time (March 2024)
The Noise of Time is a fictionalised biography of Dmitry Shostakovich and his struggle to continue to compose under Stalin’s
Read MoreThe Noise of Time is a fictionalised biography of Dmitry Shostakovich and his struggle to continue to compose under Stalin’s
Read MoreThe story opens with a little girl, Abeo Kata living a comfortable, happy life in West Africa with her father,
Read MoreSumia Sukkar is a writer of Syrian Algerian origins and this is her debut novel. It is written, mainly, from
Read MoreWe know from the outset of the novel that Lizzie Fawkes, recently married so now Mrs Tredevant, is in mortal
Read MorePartly inspired by the stabbing of Damilola Taylor, Pigeon English is a story about an 11 year old Ghanaian boy,
Read MoreThe Racketeer is an intricately plotted book on the themes of a miscarriage of justice and the desire for revenge.
Read MoreWinter in Madrid is set in 1940 during the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War with General Franco on the
Read MoreThis is a novel about the stories of five very different characters. There is a girl who flees from the
Read MoreHogarth Press invited 6 authors to write a novel based on plays by Shakespeare and Jo Nesbo re-imagined Macbeth set
Read MoreEric Newby, famous for his travel writing, wrote this account of his time as a prisoner of war, his escape,
Read MoreWritten in 1853, Villette was Charlotte Bronte’s final novel. It is based on her experience of teaching in Brussels. The
Read MoreThis story is deceptively simple. A retired man in Kingsbridge receives a letter from a colleague he has not been
Read MoreThe Wild Silence is a sequel to The Salt Path which half of our group had read. The first book
Read MoreThis novel follows the adolescent and early teenage years of Giovanna, a girl born to comfortably – off academic parents
Read MoreOur book for January was ‘Good Girl, Bad Girl’ by Michael Robotham. The author is an investigative journalist and writer
Read MoreThe Moonstone, published in 1868, is regarded as the first modern detective story. The Moonstone concerns the theft of a
Read MoreOur October choice was After the Fall by Charity Norman. In New Zealand a small boy has fallen from a
Read MoreThis book, which was awarded The Pulitzer Prize, is a story of a man’s transformation of identity and self acceptance.
Read MoreThis author was previously completely unknown to our group, but was chosen by one member who heard a dramatization of
Read MoreOur December Book was “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Husseini. The writer is a brilliant storyteller and portrays his
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