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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 |
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| 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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| 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 |
Margaret Drabble |
A day in the life of a smiling woman |
| June 2012 |
S J Watson |
Before I go to sleep |
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STROMNESS GROUP TITLES
Month & Year |
Author |
Title |
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| 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 |
| November 2010 |
Walter Greenwood |
Love on the dole |
| December 2010 |
Anne Tyler |
The accidental tourist - cancelled |
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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 |
Muriel Barbery |
The elegance of the hedgehog |
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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 |
| September 2010 |
James McCreet |
The Vice Society |
| October 2010 |
Val McDermid |
The Wire in the Blood |
| November 2010 |
Patricia Cornwell |
Predator |
| December 2010 |
Robin Blake |
A dark anatomy |
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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 |
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Agatha Christie |
The body in the library |
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 |
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