Started in the summer of 2012, the group discusses mainstream fiction and biographies from a Christian perspective. How do we, as Christians, respond to characters and events from books we read? Our answers will never be complete and lead to definite conclusions, but it will hopefully raise a number of issues for us to consider. Our aim is to have a good discussion, share fellowship, a chat, fun, a glass of wine, and generally a good evening.
If you are interested you would be very welcome to join us. Please contact the Church Office for more information.
Books We've Read
The reading list since we started is as follows:
DATE |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
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112
18-10-2024
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Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
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111
06-09-2024
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Circe | Madeleine Miller |
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110
12-07-2024
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Redgauntlet | Walter Scott |
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109
31-05-2024
|
Harry’s Game | Gerald Seymour |
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108
19-04-2024 |
Unsettled Ground | Claire Fuller |
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107
08-03-2024 |
Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus |
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106
19-01-2024 |
The Ballad of Peckham Ry | Muriel Spark |
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105
24-11-2023 |
The Offing | Benjamin Myers |
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104
13-10-2023 |
The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
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103
01-09-2023 |
Small Island | Andrea Levy |
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102
14-07-2023 |
Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell |
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101
02-06-2023 |
How To Stop Time | Matt Haig |
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100.
14-04-2023 |
Under the Skin | Michel Faber |
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99
10-03-2023 |
When the Lights Go Out | Carys Bray |
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98
27-01-2023 |
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton |
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97
19-12-2022 |
Vesper Flights | Helen Macdonald |
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96
28-10-2022 |
The Road Home | Rose Tremaine |
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95
16-09-2022 |
Golden Hil | Francis Spufford |
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94
05-08-2022 |
This Lovely City | Louise Hare |
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93
24-06-2022
|
My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante |
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92.
22-04-2022
|
Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell |
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91.
11-3-2022
|
The Mercies | Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
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90.
28-1-2022
|
The accidental recluse | Tom McCulloch |
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89.
5-11-2021
|
How green was my valley | Richard Llewellyn |
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88.
24-09-2021
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On the Beach | Neville Shute |
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87.
13-08-2021
|
Dissolution | C J Samson |
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86.
02-07-2021
|
The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
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85.
21-05-2021
|
Conclave | Robert Harris |
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84.
09-04-2021
|
The Millstone | Margaret Drabble |
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83.
26-02-2021
|
The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
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82.
15-01-2021
|
Summer's lease | John Mortimer |
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81.
04-12-2020
|
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C S Lewis |
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80.
06-11-2020
|
The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle |
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79.
02-10-2020
|
Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Everisto |
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78.
21-08-2020
|
To Sir with Love | E R Braithwaite |
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77.
17-07-2020
|
Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis |
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76.
26-06-2020
|
The Redemption of Galen Pike | Carys Davis |
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75.
05-06-2020
|
The Ashes of London | Andrew Taylor |
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74.
08-05-2020
|
The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy |
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73.
17-04-2020
|
Dark Places | Gillian Flynn |
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72.
06-03-2020
|
The Dinner | Herman Koch |
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71.
24-01-2020
|
Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
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70.
29-11-2019
|
Changing Places | David Lodge |
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69.
11-10-2019
|
Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
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68.
30-08-2019
|
Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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67.
26-07-2019
|
Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
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66.
21-06-2019
|
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
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65.
24-05-2019
|
The Kindness of Strangers | Kate Adie |
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64.
05-04-2019
|
The Painted Veil | Somerset Maugham |
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63.
22-02-2019
|
The Diary of a Nobody | George and Weedon Grossmith |
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62.
11-01-2019
|
The Broker | John Grisham |
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61.
09-11-2018
|
The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde |
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60.
21-09-2018
|
All the Light we Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
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59.
17-08-2018
|
The Rain before it falls | Jonathan Coe |
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58.
06-07-2018
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The Spy who came in from the cold | John le Carré |
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57.
25-05-2018
|
The House on the Strand | Daphne du Maurier |
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56.
06-04-2018
|
A Pale View of Hills | Kazuo Ishiguro |
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55.
23-02-2018
|
Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz |
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54.
12-01-2018
|
The Ascent of Rum Doodle | William Ernest Bowman |
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53.
20-10-2017
|
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth | John Muir |
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52.
08-09-2017
|
The Grass is Singing | Doris Lessing |
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51.
04-08-2017
|
Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
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50.
07-07-2017
|
Chocolat | Joanne Harris |
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49.
26-05-2017
|
Sunset Song | Lewis Grassic Gibbon |
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48.
07-04-2017
|
Instructions for a Heatwave | Maggie O'Farrell |
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47.
03-03-2017
|
The Blackhouse | Peter May |
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46.
27-01-2017
|
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
|
45.
09-12-2016
|
The Willows at Christmas | William Horwood |
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44.
11-11-2016
|
No Highway | Neville Shute |
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43.
14-10-2016
|
From the Holy Mountain | William Dalrymple |
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42.
07-09-2016
|
The Wife of Martin Guerre | Janet Lewis |
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41.
08-07-2016
|
Brokeback Mountain | Annie Proulx |
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40.
03-06-2016
|
The Ice Twins | S K Tremayne |
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39.
22-04-2016
|
The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
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38.
11-03-2016
|
Full Tilt | Dervla Murphy |
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37.
29-01-2016
|
Walking Home | Simon Armitage |
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36.
18-12-2015
|
The Gift | Cecelia Ahern |
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35.
20-11-2015
|
In Another Light | Andrew Greig |
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34.
16-10-2015
|
The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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33.
28-8-2015
|
Gweilo | Martin Booth |
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32.
17-7-2015
|
Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Alborn |
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31.
15-6-2015
|
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont | Elizabeth Taylor |
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30.
24-4-2015
|
The Knight's Tale | Geoffrey Chaucer |
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29.
13-3-2015
|
The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
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28.
30-1-2015
|
Cannery Row | John Steinbeck |
|
27.
19-12-2014
|
A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
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26.
21-11-2014
|
Old Filth | Jane Gardam |
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25.
17-10-2014
|
Engleby | Sebastian Faulks |
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24.
12-9-2014
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote |
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23.
1-08-2014
|
Whit | Iain Banks |
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22.
20-06-2014
|
The New Men | C P Snow |
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21.
16-05-2014
|
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Alan Sillitoe |
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20.
04-04-2014
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
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19.
21-02-2014
|
The hare with Amber Eyes | Edmund de Waal |
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18.
17-01-2014
|
the Riders | Tim Winton |
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17.
13-12-2013
|
Chocky | John Wyndham |
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16.
15-11-2013
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
|
15.
4-10-2013
|
The Railway Man | Eric Lomax |
|
14.
30-8-2013
|
Not Scared | Niccolo Ammaniti |
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13.
26-7-2013
|
The Shack | William Paul Young |
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12.
14-6-2013
|
Me before you | Jojo Moyes |
|
11.
10-5-2013
|
The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley & Malcolm X |
|
10.
5-4-2013
|
Trumpet | Jackie Kay |
|
9.
15-3-2013
|
Long Way Down | Nick Hornby |
|
8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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8.
15-2-2013
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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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7.
18-1-2013
|
The End of the Affair | Graham Greene |
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6.
14-12-2012
|
Skipping Christmas | John Grisham |
|
5.
9-11-2012
|
The God of Small Things | Arundathi Roy |
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4.
5-10-2012
|
The Truth | Terry Pratchett |
|
3.
24-08-2012
|
Consider the Lilies | Iain Crichton Smith |
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2.
13-7-2012
|
Children of Men | P.D. James |
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1.
8-6-2012
|
The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells |