The Submission

The Submission

Amy Waldman

This book is the next choice

• Thursday  7.30pm  12th January 2012 at Tom's  
• Contact Jim Hodgson for further details

The Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

This book (a prequel to Jane Eyre) was suggested after someone mentioned how many times they had gone back to reading Jane Eyre.  It could be worth going back to the original to revisit it or even the fantastic Eyre Affair by Jasper fforde to really get into it.

• Thursday  7.30pm  9th September 2010 at Katie's
• Contact Jim Hodgson for further details

The Girl on the Landing

Paul Torday

This is by the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

• Thursday 7.30pm 22nd July 2010 at Liz and Brian's
• Pleas contact Jim Hodgson for further details

Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

We had a really good discussion about this book which made people enjoy the book and rate it more highly after the discussion.  Set in the Ireland of the 1950's a young woman emigrates to America and starts to build a new life in Brooklyn.  When she has to return she is faced with a difficult dilemma.  This book won the 2009 Costa Award and is well worth a read (and a discussion).

	Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

This was a really popular choice reflecting the success of this trilogy.  The choice of an alternative heroine with slightly autistic tendencies and a traumatic past made for a fascinating read and most people went on to devour the other two books.

The first film has been released and the other two will soon follow.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Italo Calvino

This was one of those  books which was not universally enjoyed! The author writes  each chapter in a different style and seems to break off at the exciting stage.  Interspersed with these chapters is another narrative exploring different aspects of what it means to be a reader or a writer.  One comment was that it was a bit like a morning surgery - each consultation is a different story where you may never know the conclusion. It's a real brain teaser but some people felt the author was being too clever for his own good.  A challenge - but not for the faint hearted!