Sarah Waters’ wonderful 2006 tale of forbidden love in the shadows before and after Blitz Britain, The Night Watch, earned the top spot in the list of favourite titles read this year by the Loveliest Book Group, according to a December 2012 survey of current members.
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The book choice for December 2012 is The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end.
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The Parcel Yard has become a staple for our book group, we have been meeting here regularly since June 2013. It is a pub deep in the heart of the recently refurbished King’s Cross Station. Ask for Table 59.
Our book choice for November 2012 is The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. LBG selected Highsmith’s first book, Strangers on a Train for Christmas 2010 and enjoyed her prose, even if the ending disappointed the group. In the first book of the Ripley series, Tom is a 23-year-old living in New York. He comes from a fairly disadvantaged background,
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Our book choice for October 2012 is The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. it tells the story of the Joad family, a poor tenant farming family from Oklahoma, as they are forced to leave their home during the Great Depression and migrate to California in search of work. The novel is set during the Dust Bowl, a period of
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In the wake of the furore surrounding the 2011 Man Booker Prize, we were curious to see how the panel would respond: would it play safe and select well-known names? Or bravely explore new authors?
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Our book choice for September 2012 is Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Oedipus, king of Thebes, is confronted with the problem of plague in the city.
There’s nothing that gets a good book group discussion going than fundamental and passionate disagreement, and apparently Stylist Magazine has compiled a list of the Top 20 books that seem to get our juices going, one way or the other.
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According to reports, Apple is considering replacing the former mobile operator Orange as the key sponsor of the prestigous Orange Prize for Fiction recognising novels written by women.
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What an amazing and adorable find, check out the cupcakes on offer from Victoria’s Kitchen. We’ve read one of the titles (Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones) which feature among the cupcakes created for a customer’s 60th birthday.
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