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Perfect Books for Reading Groups
If you need help with choosing the next book your reading group reads - why not follow our Twitter Group 'Tweeterbookclub' to get some ideas.
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The Perfect Mother
Margaret Leroy
February 2010 Book of the Month.
A compelling read tackling one of those subjects that is difficult to comprehend – how a mother could purposefully harm her own child. Beautifully written and keeping...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/02/2010
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The Long Song
Andrea Levy
February 2010 Book of the Month.
With the recent television adaptation of Levy’s best known novel, Small Island, there has been great anticipation of this new novel and Levy does not disappoint....
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Under This Unbroken Sky
Shandi Mitchell
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
If I had a star choice for the month this would be it. It is a devastating, powerful tale of poverty, endurance, jealousy, hardship and sadness, set...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/02/2010
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The Wives of Henry Oades
Johanna Moran
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Based on a true story this debut is riveting from the start. A historical novel but written in a very modern voice and as funny as it...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Geling Yan
A great book for a book club read with much to discuss in this tale of a young Chinese girl, Fusang, kidnapped from her homeland and forced in to prostitution in San Francisco. Her beauty and understated charm lead to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 17 January 2010.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
The latest novel from prize-wining author Sarah Waters is a gothic ghost story, set in a run-down country house just after...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2010
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Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
A dark, disturbing and intelligent thriller with elements of Heathers, Donna Tartt and The Bitch Goddess Notebook.
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/09/2007
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The City and the City
China Mieville
A strange and compelling murder mystery set in a place like no other. In a unique and seemingly impossible land, two separate cities share the same space at the same time, the inhabitants passing every day and deliberately not seeing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 January 2010.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this
searing story of the nuns of Santa Caterina in 16th-century Italy
reveals how enforced convent entry was common...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 7 February 2010.
As you would expect in a book about relationships revolving around a music obsession Nick Hornby manages to get in his musical references and loves in to the pages...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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Brixton Beach
Roma Tearne
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 February 2010.
Beginning with the July 2005 London bombings this fascinating and enthralling novel draws you in from the start. In the midst of the panic unravelling in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 March 2010.
A funny and heart-breaking novel about a man, Pat, recovering from a mental breakdown that had him incarcerated in a mental institution for 4 years. His...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Did you know that the first recorded reading groups were among women working in factories in the nineteenth century? And now, according to research undertaken a few years ago, there are tens of thousands of groups meeting regularily in the UK reading everything from literary classics to technical manuals!
Of course, if you are in a book group, choosing what to read next can be a serious matter as not every book has subject matter that can really be dicussed. So to help you Lovereading has decided to lend a hand by, each month, selecting a number of books we feel are perfect and will give your group a rewarding discussion as well as a rewarding read.
If you need help with choosing the next book your reading group reads - why not follow our Twitter Group 'Tweeterbookclub' to get some ideas. Click here to find out more.
As one reader has said:
How has it taken me so long to find this treasure of a site? As an avid reader and member of a book group you will be invaluable in selecting future reads. Thanks again for a wonderful site. Angela Whiley
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The Road
Cormac Mccarthy
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007.Once in a while a book comes along that is so powerful, so terrible and so beautiful that you are left...
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The More You Ignore Me
Jo Brand
Yes, this is the renowned comedian but her background includes psychiatric nursing and she has clearly called upon her knowledge and experience in that field to produce this tale of...
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The Art of Losing
Rebecca Connell
January 2010 Debut of the Month.
A startling story of betrayal and grief, of love and infidelity that has a quite unexpected ending....
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Through Black Spruce
Joseph Boyden
A powerful and complex story. Contrasting the bleak Canadian wilderness with the bright lights of the city as a family tries not to fall apart but to find it's way....
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A Mile of River
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A story of farming folk in the 1970s fighting for their living. A brute of a father dominates his eight-year old son and treats his 17-year old daughter like a...
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