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The group meets on the second Wednesday of each month, at the convener's house in Hanwell. Participants arrive at 2:00pm or soon after for a hot drink, and then we have a discussion about a novel for roughly an hour after that.

Our next books for reading in 2025/26 are under the topic of Loyalty and Betrayal; the full list is

• The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen, July 2025, Dorothy
• Free choice, August 2025
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry, September 2025, Assumpta
• A Man, Keiichiro Hirano, October 2025, Grace
• The Betrayal, Kate Furnivall, November 2025, Rita
• The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, December 2025, Babs
• Regeneration, Pat Barker, January 2026, Juliet
• The Betrayal of Thomas True, AJ West, February 2026, Wendy
• A Legacy of Spies, John le Carre, March 2026, Julia
• Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers, April 2026, Ruth

Convener: Grace Craddock, tel 07570 445389, or email through the link at the top this page

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The list of books read by this group over the last few years have been:

Novels on Loyalty and Betrayal

• June 2025 - The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (Vivienne)

Novels published or set between the Wars

• March 2025 - The Crimson Room by Katharine Mahon (Wendy)
• February 2025 - How Green was my Valley by Richard LLewellyn (Rita)
• January 2025 - The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maughan (Dorothy)
• December 2024 - Two Days in Aragon by M J Farrell (Ruth)
• November 2024 - A Passage to India by E M Forster (Julia)
• October 2024 - The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Babs)
• September 2024 - Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi (Carol)

August 2024 - A Literary Miscellany

• July 2024 - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Grace)
• June 2024 - The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun (Vivienne)
• April 2024, Beloved by Toni Morrison (chosen by Babs)
• March 2024, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (chosen by Julia)
• February 2024, The Overstory by Richard Powers (chosen by Rita)
• January 2024, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (chosen by Carol)

2023

• December 2023, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahira (chosen by Dorothy)
• November 2023, The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (chosen by Grace)
• October 2023, The Hours by Michael Cunningham (chosen by Ruth)
• September 2023, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (chosen by Thelma)
• July 2023, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (chosen by Wendy)
• June 2023, March by Geraldine Brooks (chosen by Vivienne)
• May 2023 - Picture Palace by Paul Theroux
• April 2023 - Restless by William Boyd
• March 2023 - God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
• February 2023 - Docherty by William McIlvanney
• January 2023 - Day by A L Kennedy

The list of Books read by this group, prior to 2023, can be found in the Book Circle 3 - Books read file.

Links

• Book Circle 3 - Books read