Dark Entries
Our book choice for June 2014 is Dark Entries by Robert Aickman. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult.
A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine
Our book choice for May 2014 is A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine by Tony Benn. The book chronicles both the public and the personal events of the last decade of his life in Westminster and his ‘retirement’ thereafter.
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Autobiography by Morrissey
Our book choice for April 2014 is Autobiography by Morrissey. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.
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The Invisible Circus
Our book choice for March 2014 is The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan. In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen.
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Life After Life
Our book group choice for February 2014 is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife.
A Christmas Carol
Our book group choice for January 2014 is A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. It’s a classic tale well known by all. Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn’t like…and hardly a man he does.
Lively Pens Short Ghost Story
Penelope Lively, one of the authors who featured in the 2013 selection, has produced a ghoulish short story, published in The Observer.
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Stoner
Our book group choice for November 2013 is Stoner by John Williams. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.
The Fault in Our Stars
Our book choice for Christmas 2013 is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.
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Frankenstein
Our book group choice for October 2013 is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein.
