Book Groups
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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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Climate Reading Group: Gigantic Cinema, a review
03 November 2021 by
The rain came abruptly I have a torn sheet of paper tucked inside my copy of Gigantic Cinema, and this...
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Climate Reading Group: Letters to the Earth
15 June 2021 by
Climate Reading Group Tuesday 8th June 2021 Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis (William Collins 2019) Linda...
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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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The North recommends: Hexham Book Group
09 March 2018 by
Hexham Book Group has been running for seven years and we have recently re-located to the convivial setting of Bin...
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Parents’ Book Group: The Muse by Jessie Burton
31 March 2017 by
Our March read was Jessie Burton’s second novel, The Muse, the much-anticipated follow-up to her 2014 debut, The Miniaturist. The...
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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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Parents’ Book Group: The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
07 February 2017 by
Our first read of 2017 was The Outrun by Amy Liptrot. The book chronicles the author’s return home to Orkney...
