St John's Wood Library Book Clubs

• St John's Wood Library Book Club
• Crime Readers' Group

St John's Wood Library Book Club

Welcome to everyone interested in books!

We meet:

• On the first Wednesday of every month 
• from 6.00 - 7.00pm
• in St John's Wood Library

New members are always welcome.

Forthcoming meetings

Date	Book
Wednesday 5 June	The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark
Wednesday 3 July	To the Lighthouse , by Virginia Woolf

Previous Book Club reads are listed below.

Contact the library for more information and to borrow a copy of the next book.

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Crime readers group

The Crime Readers' Group meets

• on the third Monday of the month
• from 6.00pm

• at St John's Wood Library

Forthcoming meetings

Contact St John's Wood Library for more information.

Previously read

• The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
• The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
• Circle of Shadows by Imogen Robertson
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• A house for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
• A Man's Head by Georges Simenon
• The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Candide by Voltaire
• Anatomy of a Murder by Imogen Roberston
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
• Edge by Jeffery Deaver
• The Group, by Mary McCarthy
• All quiet on the Western Front
• Germinal by Emile Zola
• Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
• A Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill
• For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
• The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris
• A sight for sore eyes by Ruth Rendell
• The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
• The Valkyrie song by Craig Russell
• The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
• Started early, took the dog by Kate Atkinson
• Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer
• Daphne by Justine Picardie 
• Trespass by Rose Tremain (read more on Books & the City)
• Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
• The book thief by Marcus Zusak (read about it on Books & the City)
• The beacon by Susan Hill 
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
• Life Class by Pat Barker (Find out what we thought on the Books & the City blog)
• Linda Grant's The clothes on their backs 
• The girl on the landing by Paul Torday
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller