Category: Book Club 3
Posts for the Book Club 3 Group
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‘The Marriage Portrait’ by Maggie O'Farrell
Sunday Times Bestseller and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023. This is a reimagining of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger. Read more
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‘The Light Years’ by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Set in 1937, this is the first novel in the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Every summer, the Cazalet brothers – Hugh, Edward and Rupert – return to the family home in the heart of the Sussex countryside with their wives and children. Read more
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‘Glorious Exploits’ by Ferdia Lennon
Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: feckless, jobless, in need of a distraction - what could possibly go wrong? This was possibly the first book, since Book Group 3's inception over a decade ago, that no one in our group felt they could recommend to others. Read more
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‘The Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern
Full of breath-taking amazements and open only at night, the circus seems to cast a spell over all who enter. But behind the glitter, a fierce competition is underway. Read more
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‘The Figurine’ by Victoria Hislop
Escape to Athens and breathe in the sea air in this captivating novel. When Helena inherits her grandparents' apartment in Athens, she is overwhelmed with memories of the summers she spent there as a child in the 1960s. Her remote, cruel grandfather was a general in the brutal military dictatorship and as she sifts through Read more
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‘The Lost Bookshop’ by Evie Woods
On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the Read more
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‘The Black Angels’ by Maria Smilios
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery. Read more
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‘The Great Level’ by Stella Tillyard
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‘The Hike’ by Lucy Clarke
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‘Bournville’ by Jonathan Coe