Book Groups

Members contact Conveners of Book Group One or WOW (Women of Words) for more details). Prospective Members click on Email to RSVP and for details of either Group.

 Meetings

Book Group One and Women of Words: 

Second Saturday of the Odd Months. Contact Convener for more information.

Just some of the books discussed:

The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell

The Land Before Avocado: journeys in a lost Australia By Richard Glover

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Mathematical Bridge by Jim Kelly

The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta

Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman

Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Zanzibar Wife by Deborah Rodriguez

Death in the Dordogne a Bruno Chief of Police Novel by Martin Walker

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

The Woolgrowers Companion by Joy Rhoades

The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didier Laurent

Mrs M  by Luke Slattery

The Summer before the War by Helen Simonson

The Beekeeper’s Secret by Josephine Moon

The Violinist of Venice by Alyssa Palombo

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Last Painting of Sara de Voss by Dominic Smith

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrente

Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison

Bruno, Chief of Police book by Martin Walker

My Brilliant Friend by Elena  Ferrente

A Fortunate Life by Albert Facey

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Last Painting of Sara Vos by Dominic Smith at Norman Park

Dead Wake: the Last Crossing of the Lusitania  by Eric Larsson

The Messenger” by Daniel da Silva

The Memory Stones’ by Carolyn Brothers

The Beekeeper’s Secret by Josephine Moon

The Violinist of Venice by Alyssa Palombo

Absolution Creek by Nicole Alexander

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Precipice: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries) by Paul Doiron 

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

The Sense of Being by Julian Barnes

Any Bruno Chief of Police book by Martin Walker

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (non-fiction)

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (novel)

The Witness Wore Red: the 19th wife who brought polygamous cult leaders to justice by Rebecca Musser (autobiography)

One Life by Kate Grenville

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Little Princes by Connor Grennen

Daisy Miller

In Falling Snow

The Light Between the Oceans by M Stedman

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

The Bethlehem Murders

The Heart Broke In by James Meek

The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect y Graeme Simsion

The Bird Watcher by William McInnes

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

Eyrie by Tim Winton

The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

All That I Am by Anna Funder

The Women in Black by Madeleine St John

Who killed Leanne Holland? by Graeme Crowley and Paul Wilson

On Canaan’s Side

Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville

When the Hipchicks Went to War by Pamela Rushby

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umriga

The Last Time I saw Paris by Lynn Sheene

The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas

Monsoon by Di Morrissey

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Conductor (Shostakovichs 7th Symphony) by Sarah Quigley

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Infidel My Life by Ayaan Hirsi Ali – How one determined woman can change more history than her own.