Reading Group

 

Below are recent titles read by our Reading Groups. Titles marked (*) are film-tie ins. These are evenings where group members meet for food and chat to discuss the film/book. Titles marked in bold indicate author visits.

 

ORKNEY LIBRARY & ARCHIVE

 

Month & Year
Author
Title
     
January 2011 Alan Bennett Uncommon reader
February 2011 Robert McFarlane Wild places
March 2011 Mary Doria Russell Sparrow
April 2011 Salman Rushdie Enchantress of Florence
May 2011 Margaret Elphinstone Sea road
June 2011 Emma Donoghue Room
July 2011 Per Petterson Out stealing horses
August 2011 Nella Larsen Quicksand and Passing
September 2011 Robert Heinlein Stranger in a strange land
October 2011 Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song
November 2011 David Nicholls One day
December 2011 Kathryn Stockett Help
     
January 2012 Ian McEwan Solar
February 2012 David Mitchell The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet
March 2012 Ronald Blythe Akenfield
April 2012 Meg Rosoff How I live now
May 2012 S J Watson Before I go to sleep
June 2012 Colin Thubron Shadow of the silk road
July 2012 Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
August 2012 J Storer Clouston Scots wha ha'e
September 2012 Margaret Drabble A day in the life of a smiling woman

October 2012

 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple hibiscus
November 2012 Ali Smith There but for the
December 2012 Rosemary Penfold A field full of butterflies
     
January 2013 P D James Death comes to Pemberley
February 2013 Patrick Suskind Perfume
March 2013 Monica Dickens One pair of hands
April 2013 Adam Nicholson Sea Room
May 2013 Hilary Mantel An experiment in love
June 2013 Rebecca Hunt Mr Chartwell
July 2013 Eric Linklater Dark of Summer
August 2013 Robert Harris The Ghost
September 2013 Alan Massie Question of loyalties
October 2013 Lisa Ballantyne Guilty One
November 2013 Andrew Miller Pure
     

 

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STROMNESS GROUP TITLES

 

Month & Year
Author
Title
     
January 2011 Anne Tyler The accidental tourist
February 2011 Oliver Sacks An anthropologist on Mars
March 2011 Margaret Elphinstone The sea road
April 2011 Patrick Hennessey The junior officers reading club
August 2011 Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood bible
September 2011 Katherine Mansfield Short stories
October 2011 Stephen King The girl who loved Tom Gordon
November 2011 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple hibiscus
December 2011 Daisy Ashford The young visitors
 

 

 
January 2012 Philip Pullman The good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ
February 2012 Jean Rhys The wide Sargasso Sea
March 2012 Kazuo Ishiguro Never let me go - CANCELLED
April 2012 Kazuo Ishiguro Never let me go
May 2012 Irene Nemirovsky Suite Francaise
August 2012 Muriel Barbery The elegance of the hedgehog
September 2012 Andrew Greig Electric Brae
October 2012 Flann O'Brien The third policeman
November 2012 Elizabeth Arthur Bring Deeps
December 2012 Cancelled  
     
January 2013 Mikhail Bulgakov The master and Margarita
February 2013 Louisa Young My dear I wanted to tell you
March 2013 Willa Muir Imagined corners
April 2013 Diana Athill Somewhere towards the end
May 2013   Orkneyinga Saga
June 2013 Stef Penney The invisible ones
July 2013 Ron Ferguson GMB: the wound and the gift
August 2013 Robert Macfarlane The old ways
September 2013 Margaret Elphinstone Islanders
October 2013 Tim Mackintosh-Smith Travels with a tangerine
November 2013 Ann Cleeves Raven black
December 2013 Ernest Marwick The folklore of Orkney and Shetland
     

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MONDAY NIGHT MURDERS

 

 

 

 
January 2011 Camilla Lackberg The ice princess
February 2011 Steven Dunne The reaper
March 2011 Ann Cleeves Hidden depths
April 2011 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo Roseanna
May 2011 G J Moffat Daisychain
June 2011 Jed Rubenfeld The interpretation of murder
August 2011 David Hosp Dark harbour
September 2011 Anne Holt 1222
October 2011 Sara Paretsky Blacklist
November 2011 Bateman The day of the Jack Russell
December 2011 R D Wingfield Frost at Christmas
     
January 2012 Simon Beckett Chemistry of death
February 2012 Louise Levene Ghastly business
March 2012 Mark Billingham Sleepyhead
April 2012 Henning Mankell Faceless killers
May 2012 Karin Slaughter Fractured
June 2012 Denise Mina The end of the wasp season
July 2012 Ann Cleeves

Raven black

August 2012 Lin Anderson The reborn
September 2012 P D James Death comes to Pemberley
October 2012 Val McDermid A place of execution
November 2012 Michael Marshall The lonely dead
December 2012 Agatha Christie The body in the library
     
January 2013 Johan Theorin Echoes from the dead
February 2013 Craig Russell Lennox
March 2013 Orhan Pamuk My name is Red
April 2013 C S Forester The pursued
May 2013 Thomas Enger Burned
June 2013 Tess Gerritsen Girl missing

 

AT HOME WITH FABER

 

Author
Title
Paul Auster Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
Paul Auster Invisible
Sam Eastland Eye of the Red Tsar
Jane Harris The observations
Kazuo Ishiguro Never let me go
Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna
Jane Harris Gillespie and I
Francis Spufford Red plenty
Jane Smiley Private life
Barbara Kingsolver The poisonwood bible
Lucy Caldwell The meeting place

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