Bracknell Afternoon Reading Group
The group meets on the first Friday of the month 1.30-2.30 pm in the library meeting room.
NB We are currently fully subscribed and are not taking any new members. Please leave your contact details with a member of staff if you wish to join the waiting list.
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4 January 2008 - Toast by Nigel Slater
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Accounts of hotels modelled on Fawlty Towers, the mystery of the disappearing condom and the seafood cocktail, and many more, take readers behind the scenes of British cuisine to reveal the unlikely origins of one of our foremost cooks.
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1 February 2008 - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
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Set between the 1930s and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, 60 years later, she is released from care, and a young woman, Iris, discovers the great aunt she never knew she had.
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7 March - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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'A Thousand Splendid Suns' is a chronicle of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love.
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4 April 2008 - Crowded Bed by Mary Cavanagh
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Joe Fortune, a Jewish GP, has been married to Anna, his Aryan beauty, for 20 years, in a relationship that is sustained with great passion and happiness. But in the shadows of their lives, dark secrets are hidden.
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2 May 2008 - The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
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Summer 1924. On the eve of a party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999, Grace Bradley, 98, one time maid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a director making a film about the poet’s suicide.
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6 June 2008 - The Journey by Josephine Cox
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The story begins in 1952 when three strangers meet in a churchyard. One is a local farmer, Ben Morris. The other two – Lucy and Eileen Baker – are mother and daughter, bringing flowers to the grave of Barney Davidson. There is an air of mystery about them which intrigues Ben so much he has to delve deeper.
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4 July 2008 - On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
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It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come.
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5 September 2008 - Other Side of You by Sally Vickers
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David McBride is a psychiatrist unusually drawn to death. When he meets a failed suicide, he finds a haunting sense that the ‘other side’ of his elusive patient has a strange resonance for him too. Salley Vickers traces the boundaries of life and death and the difficult possibilities of repentance.
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3 October 2008 - Divas Don’t Knit by Gil McNeil
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Jo Mackenzie needs a new start. Newly widowed with two young sons and a perilous bank balance, she has to leave London to take over her grandmother's wool shop. They arrive in the pouring rain and Broadgate Bay is the kind of Kentish seaside town where the tide went out a long time ago and the old shop is full of peach four-ply.
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7 November 2008 - The Divide by Nicholas Evans.
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Montana had ritzier ranches though none as beautiful as The Divide. It’s guests came by word of mouth and returned again and again. The Cooper families fourth visit would be their last, the vacation that would change their lives forever.
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5 December 2008 - Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
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On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, 11 Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas morning tour - and disappear. Through the twists of fate they find themselves deep in the Burma jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader.
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9 January 2009 - The tenderness of wolves by Penney,Stef
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1867, Canada. As winter tightens its grip on the settlement of Dove River, a man is murdered & a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest & the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township but do they want to solve the crime, or exploit it?
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6 February 2009 - The Divide by Nicolas Evans
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Set in a time when the War on Terror has spread to the very heartland of America, 'The Divide' is the story of a little girl's effort to calm a frenzy of fear, racism and vengeance with a simple message of love and forgiveness.
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