Reading Groups Titles
The Library Service commends this wide ranging collection to readers' groups across the Region. We are sure that there will be something to provoke, amuse and enthrall everyone.
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne,Seierstad
- The Fanatic by James Robertson
- Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
- Jessica by Bryce Courtney
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre
- Brick Lane Monica Ali
- PS I love you by Cecilia Ahern
- My sister's keeper by Jodi Picault
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
New titles added in 2007
- The Godmother by Carrie Adams - Tessa King is successful, un-attached and un-maternal until she starts to feel that something is missing.
- The March by E.L. Doctorow - An historical novel that follows Sherman's epic march from Atlanta to the Atlantic during the American Civil War.
- The Kept Woman by Susan Donovan - Financial troubles lead Samantha Monroe to play the part of a politician's fiancee for a generous cheque. But the play acting leads to the real, and complicated, thing.
- Chart Throb by Ben Elton - This is a biting satire of modern TV Talent shows. Ninety-five thousand hopefuls, one winner and a whole bunch of losers.
- Thin Ice by Alan Ford - Charles Harwood is a resting actor trying to get to his next job. This is a cynical and amusing view of Charlie's hand to mouth life of controlled desperation.
- The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler - An all-girl baseball team is created in a Minnesota mill after WWII as a ploy to help find husbands in a world short of men.
- The Observations by Jane Harris - Set in the mid 19th Century, Bessy Buckley takes a job as a maid near Edinburgh to escape her past but finds a tangle of madness, ghosts, sex and lies with her new employer.
- Tombstoning by Doug Johnstone - David Lindsay's journey from and back to Arbroath after fifteen years is complicated by the nasty habit of people falling off cliffs around him.
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - When a young woman finds an ancient book and old letters she is plunged into a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler and a confrontation with evil personified.
- The Burry Man's Day by Catriona McPherson - Everyone is a suspect when the Burry Man drops dead during the South Queensferry Burry Man walk and Ferry Fair of 1923.
- Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult - Nina Frost takes justice into her own hands when her son is abused. She may have killed the man who hurt her son but has she destroyed her family in the process?
- Map of Bones by James Rollins - A breathless hunt for a clandestine fraternity of alchemists who seek to use ancient relics to establish a new world order.
- Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom - Set in a ruined, post-Civil War Spain riddled with spying, this intimate and compelling tale offers a sense of unfolding history and impossible choices between neutrality and involvement.
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - Vida Winter, a reclusive novelist, at last wants to tell the truth about herself. Summoning her biographer, they go on a journey for truth that unfolds in gothic strangeness.
- Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh - A parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity. Welsh examines identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.
Anyone wishing to borrow any of these titles for a Reading Group can contact their local library or Elaine Hogarth at Innerleithen Library Tel. 01896 830789.
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