Book Clubs

Book Clubs

 

 

The Crime Thriller Book Club

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Good reads so far: 

‘100 Best Crime Short Stories’ Edited by Sophie Hannah  

‘Exit’ Belinda Bauer

‘Guilty by Definition’ Susie Dent

‘The Pyramid’: Kurt Wallander Henning Mankell 

‘Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man), Jesse Sutanto

‘Catch Me Twice’, Cat Yaffe 

Our April read:

‘The Frozen People’, Elly Griffiths 

‘Ali’s latest assignment is her biggest challenge to date. She must step back to the Victorian Age to clear the name of Cain Templeton – the eccentric ancestor of Tory MP Isaac Templeton, boss of Ali’s son, Finn. Cain Templeton was part of a sinister group called The Collectors, the rumour being that you had to kill a woman to become a member’.

 


 

The Debut Writers’ Book Club 

At this book club we explore the fiction of writers publishing for the very first time, or the first published works of established writers.  

 

 

 

 

Good reads so far:

Cloudless’, a debut novel from Rupert Dastur 

Our April read:  

‘The God of Small Things’, Arundhati Roy 

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | Goodreads

‘Estha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins, are growing up amidst vats of banana jam, mountains of peppercorns and scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. When their beautiful young cousin Sophie arrives, their world is shaken irrevocably. An illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional expose things that lurk unsaid in a country drifting dangerously towards unrest.’