we need to talk about books
in Much Wenlock …
December 12th 2019
Here are the books we talked about …
Anna: The Temptation of Forgiveness – Donna Leon
Anna : On Poetry – Jonathan Davidson and everything by Toni Morrison
Jackie: An Abbreviated Life – Ariel Leve
Fiona: Spill Simmer Falter Wither – Sara Baume
Meg: (Dorian Gray) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
Tim: A Greyhound of a Girl – Roddy Doyle
Philip: The Music Lover’s Literary Companion – ed. Joan and Dannie Abse
Philip: Goodbye, Twentieth Century – Dannie Abse (autobiography) (and also The Presence by Dannie Abse)
Mark: Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
Eddi: Kamchatka – Marcelo Figueras
Joanne: The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
Gillie: Restless – William Boyd
Gillie: When We Were Orphans – Ishiguro
Annie: Painter To the King – Amy Sackville
Annie: Words The Turtle Taught Me (poetry) – Susan Richardson
Sue: The Sea Detective – Mark Douglas-Home and (Big Sky – Kate Atkinson)
(Titles in brackets were mentioned in passing.)
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