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Book Circle 1 holds face to face meetings at a members house, where we meet soon after 10:00am for coffee, on the 4th Monday of every month with the book discussion starting around 10:30am.

Our remaining 2026 book list is as follows:

• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafik pub. 2021 (June)
• Motherland by Graham Swift pub 2017 (July)
• Summer Celebration (August)
• A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush pub. 1958 (September)
• Two Women in Rome by Elizabeth Buchan pub. 2021 (October)

We have 10 members and no vacancies.

At each meeting, the presenter for the month introduces their chosen book. There is complete freedom in book choice either fiction or non-fiction with no restrictions on length or genre. The only proviso being that it must be available in paperback. It is expected that all members will have read the book before the meeting.

The Book Circle members agreed to choose and present one book annually. The August and December meetings are organised differently. These meetings are celebratory allowing time to share informally our wider reading enthusiasms.

Convener: Ann Gyulai, phone 020 8992 0500, or email through the link at the top of this page.

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Books read by this group over the last few years have been:

2026

• The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritson (May)
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (April)
• Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly pub. 2005 (March)
• The Lowlife by Alexander Baron pub. 1963, 2001, 2010, 2025 (February)
• Violetta by Isabel Allende pub. 2022 (January)

2025

• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier pub. 1951 (November)
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers pub. 1935 (October)
• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh pub. 1938 (September)
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk pub. 2009 (July)
• Celestial Navigation by Ann Tyler pub. 1974 (June)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark pub. 1961 (May)
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (April)
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (March)
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (February)
• Klara and the Sun by Kasuo Ishiguro (January)

2024

• Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hirohito Kawakami (November)
• AI 2041: Ten Visions of the Future by Kai Fu Lee & Chen Quifan (October)
• Absolute Beginners by Colin Macinnes (September)
• The Vinegar Girl by Ann Tyler (July)
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (June)
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (May)
• My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal (April)
• The Snow Geese by William Fiennes (March)
• The Dark Circle by Linda Grant (February)
• The Man Who Saved London by George Martelli (January)

2023

• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (November)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (October)
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (September)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (July)
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (June)
• Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir by Alan Garner (May)
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (April)
• The Pied Piper by Nevil Shute (March)
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (February)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (January)

A list of the books read by the Book Circle 1 group since it started in 2003 up to the end of 2022 is shown in the List of Books Read file.

Links

• List of Books Read