Book Groups
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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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Durham Book Group: The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
02 January 2017 by
Our reading choice for the last book group meeting of 2016 was James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life and as a...
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Durham Book Group: The Muse by Jessie Burton
25 November 2016 by
Hello to all our members and welcome to Paula and Sam who joined us for their first time at our...
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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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Durham Book Group: Writing the First World War
12 November 2016 by
October’s reading choice was Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’, the first of a trilogy of First World War novels in which she...
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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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Durham Book Group: My Name is Leon
22 September 2016 by
Our reading choice for September was Kit de Waal’s My Name is Leon, the second book we’ve read as a...
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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...
