Book Clubs

The TUESDAY Book Club meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm.

Books discussed so far and coming up for the TUESDAY Group;

• THE FAT YEARS by Chan Koonchung (August 10th 2012)
• SNUFF by Terry Pratchett (July 10th 2012)
• THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver (June 12th 2012)
• ALL THAT I AM by Anna Funder (May 8th 2012)
• CHEMISTRY OF TEARS by Peter Carey (April 17th 2012)
• SEXING THE CHERRY by Jeanette Winterson (March 13th 2012)
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (February 14th 2012)
• TWO GREEKS by John Charalambous (December 13th 2011)
• A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini (November 8th 2011)
• THE EYRE AFFAIR by Jasper Fforde (October 11th 2011)
• THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen (September 13th 2011)
• BELOVED by Toni Morrison (August 9th 2011)
• HAND ME DOWN WORLD by Lloyd Jones (July 12th 2011) 
• THE WOMEN IN BLACK by Madeleine St John plus FLY AWAY PETER by David Malouf (June 7th 2011)
• THE CITY & THE CITY by China Mieville (May 10th 2011)
• THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN by Christina Stead (April 12th 2011) 
• TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN by John Marsden (March 8th 2011)
• MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides (February 8th 2011)
• TRUTH by Peter Temple(December 12th)
• ROCKS IN THE BELLY by Jon Bauer (joining Thursday Group - November 4th)
• LOVESONG by Alex Miller (October 12th)
• PERSEPOLIS (1 & 2) by Marjane Sartrapi
• THE WHITE EARTH by Andrew McGahan
• SHUTTER ISLAND by Dennis Lehane

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The THURSDAY Book Club - 1st Thursday of each month at 6:30pm.

Books discussed so far and coming up by the THURSDAY group;

• ELEANOR & FRANKLIN: AN EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE by Hazel Rowley (August 2nd 2012)
• ALL THAT I AM by Anna Funder (July 5th 2012)
• 'Your Favourite Children's Book', a lighthearted and fun evening (June 7th 2012)
• MISTER PIP by Lloyd Jones (May 3rd 2012)
• GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens (April 5th 2012)
• THE STREET SWEEPER by Elliot Perlman (March 1st 2012)
• THE SHADOW CATCHER by Marianne Wiggins (February 2nd 2012)
• Free Choice Night - Discussing books we loved in 2011 (December 1st 2011)
• INDELIBLE INK by Fiona McGregor (November 3rd 2011)
• EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foe (October 7th 2011)
• POMEGRANATE SOUP by Marsha Mehran (September 1st 2011)
• NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro (August 4th 2011)
• THE TIGER'S WIFE by Tea Obreht (July 7th 2011)
• FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen (June 2nd 2011)
  
• THE EARTHSEA QUARTET by Ursula Le Guin (May 5th 2011)
• INFIDEL: MY LIFE by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (April 7th 2011)
• THE HAPPIEST REFUGEE by Ahn Do (March 3rd 2011)
• BEREFT by Chris Womersley (February 3rd 2011)
• THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MAF THE DOG AND OF HIS FRIEND MARILYN MONROE by Andrew O'Hagan (December 2nd)
• ROCKS IN THE BELLY by Jon Bauer (with Jon Bauer, November 4th)
• THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak
• THE OTHER HAND by Chris Cleave
• SOLAR by Ian McEwan
• TUSCAN ROSE by Belinda Alexandra
• THE LACUNA by Barbara Kingsolver
• THE SLAP by Christos Tsiolkas
• THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson
  

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The FRIDAY Book Club - 2nd Friday of each month at 11am.

Books discussed so far and coming up for the TUESDAY Group;

• TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf (August 3rd 2012)
• FIFTY SHADES OF GREY by E.L. James (July 13th 2012)
• COLD LIGHT by Frank Moorhouse (June 8th 2012)
• PAST THE SHALLOWS by Favet Parrett (May 4th 2012)
• THE STREET SWEEPER by Elliot Perlman (March 30th 2012)
• UNPOLISHED GEM by Alice Pung (February 3rd 2012)
• ALL THAT I AM by Anna Funder (December 2nd 2011)

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