City of Westminster

Mayfair Reading Group

Enjoy reading?

Want to share ideas and discover different authors?

Why not join a reading group at Mayfair library?

 
Next meeting:
Date                Book details

Tuesday 23 March 6pm to 7pm

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.

Please do join us, we meet:

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:

 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

Bliss, by Peter Carey

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Road Home by Rose Temain

The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson

The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

Susan Hill's The Risk of Darkness

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Marina Lewycka's novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Ludmila's Broken English by D. B. C. Pierre

Saturday by Ian McEwan

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

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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