Mayfair Reading Group
Enjoy reading?
Want to share ideas and discover different authors?
Why not join the reading group at Mayfair library?
Next meeting: please contact the library for details
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Please do join us, we meet:
- monthly on a Tuesday
- from 6.00 - 7.00pm
- in Mayfair Library
Anyone is welcome come along and join this friendly and informal group. For more details and copies of the books contact Katrina Blench at Mayfair Library or just call in.
Books we've read previously:
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Next book is Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne This novel is set in Sri Lanka and London during our recent history. |
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April in Paris by Michael Wallner "We enjoyed the book and found the concept interesting - occupied Paris told from a German solidier's point of view - but we thought the idea could have been more fully developed, and more explanations were needed." Read more in the Books & the City blog. |
| Arthur and George by Julian Barnes "Julian Barnes at his best. After a slow start, Arthur and George was unputdownable." |
| The Help, by Kathryn Stockett |
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The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk - The author was the first Turkish Nobel prize winner when he won it for literature in 2006. There are copies in the library. |
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The lovely bones by Alice Sebold What we thought... "We all enjoyed the book but were very disappointed by the film. Far too soppy." |
| Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson |
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Bliss, by Peter Carey |
| The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami |
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The Road Home by Rose Temain |
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The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson |
| The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing |
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Marina Lewycka's novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| Ludmila's Broken English by D. B. C. Pierre |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid We all thought the Reluctant Fundamentalist was very well written and thought provoking but not everyone agreed that the argument for the narrator becoming politically radicalised was 100% convincing'. |
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