Read, Watch & Listen
Whitley Bay Book Group
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Whitley Bay Book Group – January 2022
08 March 2022 by
The Caller by Karin Fossum This month we read The Caller by award winning Norwegian crime fiction writer Karin Fossum,...
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Whitley Bay Book Group – December 2021
08 March 2022 by
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood In Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, the Republic of Gilead is beginning to...
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Whitley Bay Book Group – November 2021
01 February 2022 by
The Son-in-Law by Charity Norman This month we discussed The Son-in-Law by Charity Norman. It tells the story of Joseph...
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Whitley Bay Book Group – October 2021
08 November 2021 by
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell In our second meeting back we are up to seven attendees, and...
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Whitley Bay Book Group – September 2021
08 November 2021 by
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen This was the group’s first meeting since March 2020 and a Coronavirus-related break. It’s good...
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The North Recommends: Whitley Book Group
20 March 2020 by
Whitley Book Group, Whitley Bay, North Tyneside We are a group of readers in Whitley Bay, linked by a...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
17 February 2017 by
After January’s atmospheric trip to the North West of England, this month we were off to sunnier climes – Naples...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
30 January 2017 by
Our first book of 2017, Andrew Michael Hurley’s Costa Winner of 2015 The Loney, was a suitably dark and gothic...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
16 November 2016 by
I was impressed that so many people had come out on such a cold and dark November evening for our...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
14 October 2016 by
It was lovely to meet Jenny, who joined us for the first time on Wednesday evening, for what turned out...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
30 September 2016 by
What a lovely start to our first session back after the summer break – not only do we welcome three...
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Whitley Bay Book Group: The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
24 July 2016 by
We were a slightly smaller group than usual this month, and I’m not sure if the less-literary-than-normal title put people...
