Our book group choice for July 2022 is Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah. While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops.

Our book group choice for June 2022 is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. This book creates an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov.

Our book group choice for May 2022 is The Khan by Saima Mir. A successful lawyer, her London life is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father headed up the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate.

Our book group choice for April 2022 is Regeneration by Pat Barker. The first in Pat Barker’s series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, Regeneration focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight.

Our book group choice for March 2022 is Call for the Dead by John le Carré. This classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge.

Our book group choice for Februrary 2022 is Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes.

Our book group choice for January 2022 is Free by Lea Ypi. For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades.

Our book group choice for December 2021 is Murder in the Crooked House by Sōji Shimada. The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan.

Our book group choice for October 2021 is Middle England by Jonathan Coe. Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain.

Our book group choice for September 2021 is Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A masterly, haunting novel, Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history.