Bookworms' Archives


2002
Nov
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Dec
Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier






2003
Jan
The Life of Pi Yann Martel
Feb
Possession A S Byatt
Mar
The Story of My Face Kathy Page
Apr
The Liveship Traders 1: Ship of Magic Robin Hobb
May
The Hotel New Hampshire John Urwin
June
Bel Canto Anne Patchett
July
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Sept
The Shipping News Annie Proulx
Oct
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nov
The Mulberry Empire Philip Hensher
Dec
The Truth Terry Pratchett



2004
Jan
Middlesex Jeffery Eugenides
Feb
The Athenian Murders Jose Carlos Samoza
Mar
The Seige Helen Dunmore
Apr
Along Came a Spider James Patterson
May
Brick Lane Monica Ali
June
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime Mark Haddon
July
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Sept
The Hours Michael Cunningham
Oct
The Good Doctor Damon Galgut
Nov
The Lovely Bones Alice Seebold
Dec
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys





2005
Jan
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Feb
Changing Planes Ursual Le Guin
Mar
Spies Michael Frayn
Apr
Daughters of April
May

June
The Name-Sake Jhumpa Lahiri
July
The Go-Between L P Hartley
Sept
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
Oct
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
Nov
Noughts and Crosses Mallory Blackman
Dec
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine Marina Lewycka





2006
Jan
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Feb
The Overcoat Nicholai Gogol
Mar
Mutiny Lindsey Collen
Apr
Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee Meera Syal
May
Small Island Andrea Levy
June
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
July
Madam Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Sept
The Constant Gardener John le Carre
Oct
Fugutive Pieces Ann Michells
Nov

Dec
The Sea John Banville




2007
Jan

Feb

Mar
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
Apr
Unless Carol Sheilds
May
The History Boys Alan Bennet
June
The Devil Wears Prada
July
Made in Heaven Adele Geras
Sept
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
Oct
The Island Victoria Hislop
Nov
The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
Dec
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie





2007 - 2008


November 8th ~ Pauline
‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ ~ Audrey Niffenegger
At Helen’s
December 13th ~ Helen
‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
At Cherilyn’s
January 11th ~ Jenny
‘Gigi’ and ‘The Cat’ ~ Colette
At Ann’s
February 7th ~ Margaret
‘Digging To America’ ~ Anne Tyler
At Sue’s
March 13th ~ Ann
‘Beyond Black’ ~ Hilary Mantel
At Margaret’s   NB change of venue
April 10th ~ Cherilyn
‘Water for Elephants’ ~ Sara Gruen
At Pauline’s  NB change of venue
May 8th~ Sue
‘Where Angels Fear To Tread’ ~ E M Forster
At Sue’s   NB change of venue
June 12th ~ Pauline
‘On Chesil Beach’ ~ Ian McEwan
At Cherilyn’s
July 10th ~ Helen
‘Never Let me Go’ ~ Kazou Ishiguro
At Ann’s

2008 - 2009



September 7th
‘Atonement’ ~ Ian McEwan
At Margaret’s
October 9th ~ Jenny
‘The Reader’ ~ Bernhard Schlink
At Helen’s
November 13th ~ Margaret
‘Engleby’ ~ Sebastian Faulks
At Jenny’s
December 11th ~ Ann
‘The Member of the Wedding’ ~ Carson McCullers
At Pauline’s
January 8th ~ Cherilyn
‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ ~ Muriel Spark
At Sue’s
February 12th ~ Sue
‘The Blind Assassin` ~ Margaret Atwood
At Cherilyn’s
March 12th ~ Helen
‘Couples’ ~ John Updike
At Ann’s
April 2nd ~ Pauline
‘Beloved’ ~ Toni Morrison
At Margaret’s
May 20th~ Jenny
‘We Need To talk About Kevin’ ~ Lionel Shriver
At Helen’s
June 17th ~ Margaret
‘Precious Bane’ ~ Mary Webb
At Jenny’s
July 15th ~ Ann
‘The Tenderness of Wolves’ ~ Stef Penney
At Sue’s

2009 -2010



September 6th
‘Oscar and Lucinda’ ~ Peter Carey
At Pauline’s
October 21st ~ Cherilyn
‘The Secret Scripture’ ~ Sebastian Barry
At Ann’s
November 18th ~ Sue
‘Disgrace’ ~ J M Coetzee
At Ann’s
December 16th ~ Helen
‘The White Tiger’ ~ Aravind Adiga
At Cherilyn’s
February 24th ~ Pauline
‘The Children’s Book’ ~ A S Byatt
At Cherilyn’s
March 17th ~ Jenny
‘Northanger Abbey’ ~ Jane Austen
At Helen’s
April 21st ~ Margaret
‘The Secret River’ ~ Kate Grenville
At Jenny’s
May 19th ~ Ann
‘The Tenderness of Wolves’ ~ Stef Penney
At Sylvia’s
June 16th~ Sylvia
‘Oryx and Crake’ ~ Margaret Atwood
At Sue’s
July 21st ~ Cherilyn
‘The True Deceiver’ ~ Tove Jansson
At Margaret’s