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Reading Group
Below is the complete list of titles read by the Kirkwall Group since we started in November 2004. Titles marked with an asterix (*) 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 |
| November 2004 |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
North & South |
| December 2004 |
Alexander MacCall Smith |
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency |
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| February 2005 |
Graham Greene |
The End of the Affair |
| March 2005 |
Mark Haddon |
The curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime |
| April 2005 |
Francis Spufford |
The Child that Books Built |
| May 2005 |
Various |
Lucky dip |
| June 2005 |
Michael Dibdon |
Medusa |
| July 2005 |
Rose Tremain |
The Colour |
| August 2005 |
Khaled Hosseini |
The Kite Runner* |
| September 2005 |
Thomas Hardy |
Far from the Madding Crowd |
| October 2005 |
Mark Gatiss |
The Vesuvius club |
| November 2005 |
Barbara Kingsolver |
The Poisonwood Bible |
| December 2005 |
Siri Hustvedt |
What I have loved |
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| January 2006 |
Evelyn Waugh |
Vile Bodies * |
| February 2006 |
Walter Scott |
The Pirate |
| March 2006 |
John Aberdein |
Amande's bed |
| April 2006 |
Alexander Master |
Stuart; a life backwards |
| May 2006 |
Phillip Pullman |
Northern lights* |
| June 2006 |
Christine Aziz |
The Olive Readers |
| July 2006 |
Tom Muir |
Orkney in the Sagas |
| August 2006 |
Margaret Atwood |
The Oryx and the Crake |
| September 2006 |
Alistair MacLeod |
No Great Mischief |
| October 2006 |
Dorothy L Sayers |
Nine Tailors |
| November 2006 |
Isla Dewar |
Dancing in a different place |
| December 2006 |
Alanna Knight |
An Orkney Murder |
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| January 2007 |
Andrew Greig |
In another light |
| February 2007 |
Dostovesky |
The Gambler |
| March 2007 |
Alice Sebold |
The Lovely Bones |
| April 2007 |
Yann Martel |
The Life of Pi |
| May 2007 |
Jud Newborn |
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose* |
| June 2007 |
Audrey Niffeneger |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
| July 2007 |
Walter Mosley |
Walkin the Dog |
| August 2007 |
J M Coetzee |
Disgrace |
| September 2007 |
Ian McEwan |
Atonement* |
| October 2007 |
Jessie Kesson |
The White Bird Passes |
| November 2007 |
Janet Evanovich |
Motor Mouth |
| December 2007 |
Turgenev |
First Love |
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| February 2008 |
Maggie Fergusson |
George Mackay Brown; the life |
| March 2008 |
Alison Miller |
Demo |
| April 2008 |
Jodi Picoult |
My Sister's Keeper |
| May 2008 |
Sarah Waters |
Nightwatch |
| June 2008 |
Irene Nemirovsky |
Fire in the Blood |
| July 2008 |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
100 years of solitude |
| August 2008 |
James Robertson |
The Testament of Gideon Mack |
| September 2008 |
Armistead Maupin |
Michael Tolliver Lives |
| October 2008 |
Doris Lessing |
The Golden Notebook |
| November 2008 |
Alaa al Aswany |
The Yacoubian Building |
| December 2008 |
John le Carre |
Absolute Friends |
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| January 2009 |
Khaled Hosseini |
A 1000 Splendid Suns |
| February 2009 |
Cormac McCarthy |
The Road |
| March 2009 |
Matthew Kneale |
English Passengers |
| April 2009 |
James Meek |
People's act of love |
| May 2009 |
Sebastian Barry |
A secret scripture |
| June 2009 |
Lin Anderson |
Easy Kill |
| July 2009 |
Michel Faber |
Under the skin |
| August 2009 |
Victoria Hislop |
The island |
| September 2009 |
John Irving |
A prayer for Owen Meany |
| October 2009 |
Aravind Adiga |
The white tiger |
| November 2009 |
John Aberdein |
Strip the willow |
| December 2009 |
Bill Bryson |
Notes from a small island |
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| January 2010 |
Muriel Spark |
The girls of slender means |
| February 2010 |
Julie Corbin |
Tell me no secrets |
| March 2010 |
Catrin Collier |
One last summer |
| April 2010 |
Kate Summerscale |
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher |
| May 2010 |
Bernhard Schlink |
Homecoming |
| June 2010 |
A S Byatt |
The children's book |
| July 2010 |
Ann Patchett |
Bel Canto |
| August 2010 |
Paul Torday |
The girl on the landing |
| September 2010 |
Steig Larsson |
The girl with the dragon tattoo |
| October 2010 |
Des Dillon |
My epileptic lurcher |
| November 2010 |
Simon Mawer |
The glass room |
| December 2010 |
Barack Obama |
Dreams of my father |
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STROMNESS GROUP TITLES
Month & Year |
Author |
Title |
April 2005 |
Kate Atkinson |
Behind the Scenes at the Museum |
| May 2005 |
Alice Sebold |
The Lovely Bones |
| June 2005 |
Dostoevsky |
The Idiot |
| July 2005 |
Anne MacLeod |
The Dark Ship |
| August 2005 |
Salman Rushdie |
The Satanic Verses |
| September 2005 |
Alan Warner |
Morven Callar |
| October 2005 |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Prodigal Summer |
| November 2005 |
Haruki Murakami |
The wind-up bird chronicle |
| December 2005 |
As above |
As above |
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| January 2006 |
Alexander MacCall Smith |
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency |
| February 2006 |
David Mitchell |
Cloud Atlas |
| March 2006 |
Julian Barnes |
Flaubert's Parrot |
| April 2006 |
Alasdair Gray |
Lanark |
| May 2006 |
Chinua Achebe |
Things Fall Apart |
| June 2006 |
Amy Tan |
The Joy Luck Club |
| July 2006 |
Ian McEwan |
Saturday |
| August 2006 |
Magnus Mills |
The Scheme for Full Employment |
| September 2006 |
Lionel Shriver |
We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| October 2006 |
John Aberdein |
Amande's bed |
| November 2006 |
As above |
As above |
| December 2006 |
Alastair MacLeod |
No Great Mischief |
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| January 2007 |
Michael Dibdin |
Medusa |
| February 2007 |
Khaled Hosseini |
The Kite Runner |
| March 2007 |
Christopher Brookmyre |
Quite Ugly One Morning |
| April 2007 |
Luke Sutherland |
Venus as a Boy |
| May 2007 |
D B C Pierre |
Vernon God Little |
| June 2007 |
Michael faber |
Under the Skin |
| July 2007 |
A S Byatt |
The Virgin in the Garden |
| August 2007 |
Keri Hulme |
The Bone People |
| September 2007 |
John le Carre |
A Perfect Spy |
| October 2007 |
Kiran Desai |
The Inheritance of Loss |
| November 2007 |
William Horwood |
The Boy with no Shoes |
| December 2007 |
Phillip Pullman |
His Dark Materials trilogy |
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| January 2008 |
George Mackay Brown |
Greenvoe |
| February 2008 |
Charles MacLean |
Island on the edge of the World |
| April 2008 |
James Robertson |
The Testament of Gideon Mack |
| May 2008 |
Colin Thubron |
Shadow of the Silk Road |
| May 2008 |
Janet Turner Hospital |
Due Preparations for the Plague |
| June 2008 |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
The Life of Charlotte Bronte |
| July 2008 |
Sue Monk Kidd |
The Secret Life of Bees |
| August 2008 |
Khaled Hosseini |
A 1000 Splendid Suns |
| September 2008 |
Catherine O'Flynn |
What was lost |
| October 2008 |
Erich Maria Remarque |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
| November 2008 |
Mark Haddon |
A spot of bother |
| December 2008 |
Tracy Chevalier |
Girl with a pearl earring |
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| January 2009 |
Orhan Pamuk |
My name is Red |
| March 2009 |
Owen Sheers |
Resistance |
| April 2009 |
Lewis Grassic Gibbon |
Sunset song |
| May 2009 |
Robert Tressell |
A ragged trousered philanthropist |
| June 2009 |
Dostoevsky |
Crime and punishment |
| July 2009 |
Per Petterson &
Anne Bern |
Out stealing horses |
| August 2009 |
John Updike |
Rabbit is rich |
| September 2009 |
Kate Summerscale |
The suspicions of Mr Whicher |
| October 2009 |
Jose Eduardo Angualusa |
Book of chameleons |
| November 2009 |
Pam Beasant |
Poetry Session |
| December 2009 |
Anne Donovan |
Buddha Da |
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| January 2010 |
Doris Lessing |
The golden notebook |
| March 2010 |
Rohinton Mistry |
Family matters |
| April 2010 |
Janice Galloway |
This is not about me |
| May 2010 |
Dorothy Dunnett |
King Hereafter |
| August 2010 |
Arturo Perez Reverte |
The Dumas Club |
| September 2010 |
Steven Ambrose |
Undaunted courage |
| October 2010 |
Walter Greenwood |
Love on the dole |
| November 2010 |
Annye Tyler |
The accidental tourist |
| December 2010 |
Oliver Sacks |
An anthropologist on Mars |
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| January 2011 |
Margaret Elphinstone |
The sea road |
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MONDAY NIGHT MURDERS
| May 2009 |
Hakan Nesser |
The return |
| June 2009 |
Andrew Grant |
Even |
| July 2009 |
Brian McGilloway |
Borderlands |
| August 2009 |
Robert Masello |
Blood & Ice |
| September 2009 |
Linda Castillo |
Sworn to silence |
| October 2009 |
Ryan David Jahn |
Acts of violence |
| November 2009 |
Aline Templeton |
Lamb to the slaughter |
| December 2009 |
Agatha Christie |
Hercule Poirot's Christmas |
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| January 2010 |
Chelsea Cain |
Evil at heart |
| February 2010 |
M R Hall |
The disappeared |
| March 2010 |
Dick Francis |
Whip hand |
| April 2010 |
Scott Frost |
Don't look back |
| May 2010 |
Hakan Nesser |
The Inspector and silence |
| June 2010 |
Denise Mina |
The field of blood |
| July 2010 |
Sam Eastland |
Eye of the Red Tsar |
| August 2010 |
Ruth Rendell |
13 steps down |
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