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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Purple hibiscus |
| November 2012 |
Ali Smith |
There but for the |
| December 2012 |
Rosemary Penfold |
A field full of butterflies |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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