“A reader lives a thousand lives … the [person] who never reads lives only one.”

– George R.R. Martin

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Our next meeting is on Tuesday 21st April 2026 at Trish’s place. The next book selection will be by Illona and on the News page soon. Get in touch with any great books you’ve read and we’ll post them too!

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is our book for April 2026. 

The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan is our book for March 2026. 

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Mr Einstein’s Secretary by Matthew Reilly

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 

The Secret Book of Florea Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

The Stranger at the Table by Cassie Hamer

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

 

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The Echo Chamber by John Boyne

A Dangerous Game by Mandy Robotham

The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

The Masterpiece by Belinda Alexandra 

The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolton-Boshammer

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taken by Dinuka McKenzie 

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Wager by David Grann

Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler

Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl: A Memoir by Sonia Henry

The Lamplighters by Emma Stone

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

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The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah

The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester 

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlington

A Date to a Death by Gaylene B Corben

A family of Strangers by  Fiona Lowe

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Solito by Javier Zamora

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

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The Girl from Munich by Tania Blanchard

The Broken Girls by Simone St James

One Cornish Summer by Liz Fenwick

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Unbreakable by Jelena Dokic

Khaki Town by Judy Nunn

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Survivors by Jane Harper

Honeybee by Craig Silvey

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout

Sanctuary by Judy Nunn

The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by  Heather Morris 

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout 

Before We Were Yours by  Lisa Wingate 

The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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All the Light We Cannot See  by Anthony Doerr 

We are all Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

He Said, She Said by Erin Kelly

The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

The Dry by Jane Harper

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

After You by Jo Jo Moyes

Infidel by Ayan Hirsi Ali

The Lake House by Kate Moreton

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

The Hundred foot Journey by Richard C Morris 

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The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Beneath the Southern Cross by Judy Nunn

Sapphire Skies by Belinda Alexandra

Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Eyrie by Tim Winton

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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The Forgotten Garden by Kate Moreton

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

The Secret Keeper by Kate Moreton

Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith  (aka J.K. Rowling)

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

The Lost Child of Pilomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith

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Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Tuscan Rose by Belinda Alexandria

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

One Day by David Nicholls 

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

The Help by Katheryn Stockett

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Salvation Creek  by Susan Duncan

88 Lines About 44 Women by Steven Lang  

Dirt Music by Tim Winton

Legacy by Tamara McKinley

The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis

A Little Faith by Mitch Albom

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

The Book Thief by Markus Zusac

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd