Book Group

In Book Group this week we discussed Shade by Neil Jordan [the film director]. On the back it says "Makes you wonder why he bothers making films.." No it doesn't.

Here is the list of all the books we have read since the group started.

Book	Author
The Dream of Scipio	Ian Pears
The Name of the Rose	Umberto Ecco
A Study in Scarlet	Conan Doyle
Small Island	Andrea Levy
The Line of Beauty	Alan Hollinghirst
Chronicle of a Death Foretold	Gabriel Marques
Saturday	Ian McEwan
Christmas Party?
The Long Goodbye	Raymond Chandler
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Defying Hitler	Sebastien Haffner
Pattern Recognition	William Gibson
Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf
The Good Earth	Pearl S Buck
A poem chosen beforehand
Christmas Party
Nothing Natural	Jenny Diski
American Pastoral	Philip Roth
Restless	William Boyd
The Damned United	David Peace
Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog	Dylan Thomas
The Clothes in the Wardrobe	Alice Thomas Ellis
Knut Hamsun	Mysteries
Christmas Party
Surely You’re Joking Mr F.	Feynman
In Another Light	Andrew Greig
The Long Firm	Jake Arnott
The Man who was Thursday	G.K.Chesterton
Steal You Away	Niccolo Ammaniti
Sputnik Sweetheart	Murakami
Room at the Top	John Braine
Christmas Party
A Grain of Wheat	Ngugi Wa Thiengo
Personality	Andrew O’ Hagan
Under The Eye of the Clock	Christopher Nolan
The Talented Mr Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Moshin Hamid
Love’s Executioner	Irvin Yalom
The Heat of the Day	Elizabeth Bowen
Oxtales: Water	Various
Christmas Party
The Boy with the Topknot	Sathnam Sangera
Tell it to the Bees	Fiona Shaw
Coming Up For Air	George Orwell
My Driver	Maggie Gee
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
Corvus	Esther Woolfson
The Strain	del Torro
Skellig	David Almond
Pastoral	Nevil Shute
The Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
The Inspector Calls & Other Plays	J.B.Priestley
Medical Detective	Sandra Hempel
A Visit from the Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan
Brighton Rock	Graham Greene
The City and the City	China Meyville
A View from Castle Rock	Alice Munro
Christmas Party
A Question of Blood	Ian Rankin
That Old Cape Magic	Richard Russo
The Element of Water	Stevie Davis
The Sense of an Ending	Julian Barnes
Family Matters	Rohinton Mistry
Popular Music	Mikael Niemi
The Death Instinct	Jed Rubenfield
The Green Man	Simon Armitage
Christmas Party
A Month in the Country	J.L.Carr
On Canaan’s Side	Sebastian Barry
Why be happy when you could be normal	Jeanette Winterson
Toby’s Room	Pat Barker
Tangled Lives	Hilary Boyd
Mrs Bridge	Evan.S.Connell
Screening of Mr & Mrs Bridge
Shade	Neil Jordan