Meeting

Title

Author

Suggested By

MIN Vote

MAX Vote

Average Rating

JAN 2012

The Careful Use of Compliments

Alexander McCall Smith

Irene

0

9

5

DEC 2011

Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

Penny

4

10

6.6

NOV 2011

Eve Green

Susan Fletcher

Christine

7

9

8.15

OCT 2011

Trespass

Rose Tremain

Jennie

5

10

7

SEP 2011

The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobsen

Booker Prize 2010

4

9

5.6

AUG 2011

A Week In December

Sebastian Faulks

Freda

5

7

6

JULY 2011

The Idea of Perfection

Kate Grenville

Yvonne

6

9

8.1

JUNE 2011

A Pale View of the Hills

Kazuo Ishuguro

Irene

1

9

7.25

JUNE 2011

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Ali

5

10

8.5

MAY 2011

Incendiary

Chris Cleave

Penny

4

8.5

7.25

APR 2011

Back to Bologna

Michael Dibdin

Irene

2

5

3

MAR 2011

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Paul Torday

Passed Over

5

9

7.5

FEB 2011

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jennie

7

9.5

8.6

JAN 2011

Italian Shoes

Henning Mankell

Jennie

5.5

9.5

7.9

DEC 2010

‘The Cellist of Sarajevo’

Steven Galloway

Irene

5

8

7

NOV 2010

‘Something Might Happen’

Julie Myerson 

Yvonne

4

8

7.2

OCT 2010

‘The Winter Ghosts’ 

Kate Moss

Freda

2

9

3.3

SEP 2010

‘The Inheritance of Loss’

Kiran Desai

Ali

6

9

7.5

AUG 2010

Restless

William Boyd

Penny

7

9

8

JULY 2010

The Other Side of You

Salley Vickers

Jenny K

4

7.5

5.2

JUN 2010

Deaf Sentence

David Lodge

Rhona

6

9

8.75

MAY 2010

Beethoven was 1/16th Black  

Nadine Gordimer

Lene

3

8

5.5

APR 2010

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters

Elizabeth

6

9.75

7.6

MAR 2010

How to be Lost

Amanda Eyre Ward

Cathy

4

9.5

7

FEB 2010

A Spell of Winter

Helen Dunmore

Andrea

4

9

6.25

JAN 2010

The Great Lover

Jill Dawson

Irene

1

7

4.4

DEC 2009

poems about animals as a theme

various

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

NOV 2009

‘The Surgeon of Crowthorne’

by Simon Winchester    

Yvonne

6

8

7.4

NOV 2009

‘The Road’  

by Cormac McCarthy

Jennie

6

10

8.5

SEP 2009

‘March’ 

by Geraldine Brooks

Penny

0

8

4.5

AUG 2009

“A Spot of Bother” 

by Mark Haddon 

Nathaniel

3.5

8.5

5.5

JULY 2009

“An Equal Music”

by Vikram Seth

Irene O

4

9

6.9

JUN 2009

“The Behaviour of Moths”

Poppy Adams

Ali

5

8.5

6.8

MAY 2009

“The White Tiger”

 Aravind Adiga 

Marion

5

10

7.3

APR 2009

'What Was Lost'

Catherine O'Flynn

John

5

9

7

MAR 2009

“My Cleaner” 

Maggie Gee 

Yvonne

7

9

7.9

FEB 2009

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

Jennie

6

9.75

8

FEB 2009

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

Jennie

9

10

9.3

JAN 2009

The Falls

Ian Rankin

Irene

4

5

4.5

JAN 2009

The Rain Before It Falls

by Jonathon Coe

Irene

4

8

6.5

DEC 2008

‘The Photograph’ 

by Penelope Lively 

Myrtha

6

8

7.5

NOV 2008

“Arthur and George”

by Julian Barnes 

Penny

5

9

7.3

OCT 2008

The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies 

Marjorie

4

9

6.7

SEP 2008

Period Piece : A Cambridge Childhood

 Gwen Raverat

Ali

6

8

6.5

AUG 2008

Human Traces

Sebastian Faulks

Marion

4

9

6.9

JUL 2008

Disgrace

J.M.Coetzee

4

8

6.8

JUN 2008

The Unknown Terrorist

Richard Flanaghan

Yvonne

5

10

7.5

MAY 2008

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Acichie

5

8

7.3

APR 2008

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

Rose Tremain

Jennie

4

9

6.5

MAR 2008

His ‘n’ Hers  

Mike Gayle

Irene

1

8

5.8

FEB 2008

The Janissary Tree

Jason Goodwin  

Myrtha

2

8

4.9

JAN 2008

The Sea

John Banville

4

10

6.9

DEC 2007

One Good Turn

Kate Atkinson

0

8

5.3

NOV 2007

Pompeii   

Robert Harris

Penny

?

?

7.3

OCT 2007

Cockeyed

Ryan Knighton

Marion

 5

8

7

SEP 2007

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Peter Hoeg

John

7

 10

8

SEP 2007

The Accidental

Ali Smith

4

7

6.8

AUG 2007

Double Vision

Pat Barker       

5

8

7.2

AUG 2007

Case Histories

Kate Atkinson

6

9

8

JUL 2007

Cloud Atlas (read by Marion)

David Mitchell

Marion

9

9

9

JUL 2007

White Ghost Girls

Alice Greenway

6

8

7

JUN 2007

The People’s Act of Love 

James Meek

3

8

5.4

MAY 2007

Hotel Du Lac

Anita Brookner

Andrea

5

9

6.25

APR 2007

Night Watch

Sarah Waters

4

7

5.9

MAR 2007

Waterland

Graham Swift

5

8

6.5

FEB 2007

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

4

7

5.3

JAN 2007

The ninth life of Louis Drax  

Liz Jensen

2

9

7

NOV 2006

The Glittering Prizes

Fredrick Raphael

5

7

6

OCT 2006

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

Margaret Forster

2

7

5.1

SEPT 2006

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Le Carre

5

9

6.6

SEPT 2006

Bad Blood

Lorna Sage

0

8

6

JULY 2006

The Story of Lucy Gault

William Trevor

4

8

6.9

JUNE 2006

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

8

8

8

MAY/2006

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai Sijie

5

7

6.3

MAR/2006

The Jane Austen Book Club

Karen Joy Fowler

0

8

4.4

FEB/2006

Street Dreams

Faye Kellerman

4

8

5.4

JAN/2006

Chocolat

Joanne Harris

2

8

5.6

NOV/2005

Master & Commander

Patrick O’Brian

1

9

5

OCT/2005

Dirt Music

Tim Winton

7

SEP/2005

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

AUG/2005

The Bookseller of Kabul

Asne Seierstad

JUL/2005

Billie Morgan

Joolz Denby

JUN/2005

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian

Marina Lewycka

MAY/2005

A Passage to Africa

George Alaghia

APR/2005

Toast:The Story of a Boy’s Hunger

Nigel Slater

MAR/2005

Brick Lane

Monica Ali

Neither Here Nor There

Bill Bryson

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree

Chris Stewart

On Green Dolphin Street

Sebastian Faulks

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Frankie & Stankie

Barbara Trapido

Unless

Carol Shields

Close Range

Annie Proulx

Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Middlemarch

George Elliot