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Reading Group Collection Reading Group Collection Author Title No of Copies Aboulela, Leila Lyrics alley 12 Abrams, Rebecca Touching distance 12 Aciman, Andre Call me by your name 10 Adichie, Chimamanda Half of a yellow sun 7 Adichie, Chimamanda Purple hibiscus 10 Adiga, Aravind Between the assassinations 10 Albom, Mitch The five people you meet in heaven 7 Albom, Mitch For one more day 12 Albom, Mitch The time keeper 10 Albom. Mitch Tuesdays with Morrie Biography 10 Alexander, Keir The ruby slippers 8 Ali, Monica Brick Lane 10 Ambler, Eric Cause for alarm 5 Anderson, Lin Follow the dead 8 Angelou, Maya I know why the caged bird sings Biography 10 Ansay, Manette Blue water 10 Appelfeld, Aharon Blooms of darkness 8 Ashdown, Isabel Flight boxset 10 Ashton, David Shadow of the serpent 10 Atkinson, Kate Behind the scenes at the museum 10 Atkinson, Kate Case histories 8 Atwood, Margaret The handmaid’s tale 8 Atwood, Margaret Oryx and Crake 12 Austen, Jane Lady Susan 6 Austen, Jane Sense and sensibility 10 Ayres, Pam The necessary aptitude biography 8 Bailey, Catherine Black Diamond 6 Baker, Jo Longbourn 8 Baker, Jo The telling 12 Banks, Ian The crow road 10 Banks, Ian Stonemouth 8 Banks, Iain The wasp factory 13 Banks, Lynne Reid The l-shaped room 4 Barbery, Muriel The elegance of the hedgehog 7 Barnett, Laura The versions of us 8 Barry, Sebastian The secret scripture 8 Bauer, Belinda Rubbernecker 10 Bauer, Josef As far as my feet will carry me 10 Beckwith, Lillian The Hills is Lonely 10 Benaddi, Janette Four mums in a boat 10 Page 1 of 11 Reading Group Collection Bender, Aimee The particular sadness of lemon cake 9 Bennett, Alan The laying on of hands 12 Bennett, Alan The uncommon reader 12 Birch, Carol Come back Paddy Riley 12 Birch, Carol Jamrach’s menagerie 8 Bivald, Katarina The readers of broken wheel 4 Boling, Dave Guernica 12 Boo, Katherine Behind the beautiful forevers 8 Booth, Louise When Fraser met Billy 10 Boxall, Penny Who goes there? 10 Boyd, William Blue afternoon 16 Boyd, William Ordinary thunderstorms 12 Boyd, William Restless 11 Boyd, William Sweet caress 8 Boyne, John The boy in the striped pyjamas 12 Bracht, Mary Lynn White chrysanthemum 10 Bradbury, Malcolm The history man 8 Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 6 Brandreth,Gyles Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders 12 Bristow, Su Seal skin 10 Brittain, Vera Testament to youth biography 6 Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre 8 Brown, George McKay For the islands I sing biography 8 Bryson,Bill Notes from a big country travel 13 Bryson, Bill The road to Little Dribbling 10 Buchan, John John McNab 8 Buchan, John Sick heart river 11 Buckley, Carla The things that keep us here 10 Burke, James Lee To a bright and shining sun 12 Burton, Jessie The Muse 8 Byatt, A.S. The children’s book 12 Cannon, Joanna The three things about Elsie 8 Cannon, Joanna The trouble with goats and sheep 8 Carey, Peter The true story of the Kelly gang 6 Cather, Willa My Antonia 10 Catton, Eleanor The luminaries 10 Cecil, Veronica Drums on the night air biography 10 Celestine, Ray The axeman’s jazz 10 Challis, Sarah Footprints in the sand 10 Chang, Iris The rape of Nanking 8 Chevalier, Tracy Falling angels 10 Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a pearl earring 10 Page 2 of 11 Reading Group Collection Chevalier, Tracy Remarkable creatures 12 Clements, Toby The No 2 global detective 12 Clewlow, Carol Not married, not bothered 10 Coelho ,Paulo The alchemist 8 Collins, Wilkie The moonstone 8 Conrad, Joseph Heart of darkness 4 Cope, Wendy Family values poetry 8 Copleton, Jackie A dictionary of mutual understanding 8 Corry, Jane Blood sisters 8 Corry, Jane My husband’s wife 8 Cotterill, Colin The coroner’s lunch 12 Crace, Jim Quarantine 10 Crichton-Smith, Iain Consider the lilies 6 Cumming, Alan Not my father’s son: A family memoir 10 Curtin, Amanda Elemental 10 Curtis, Emma When I find you 10 Daley-Clarke, Donna Lazy eye 10 Darlington, Terry Narrow dog to Carcassonne 8 De Bernieres, Louis Notwithstanding: tales from an English village 6 Delaney, J P The girl before 10 Deveney, Catherine Kiss the bullet 9 De Vigan, Delphine Based on a true story 10 Devlin, Denyse The catalpa tree 10 Dewar, Isla It could happen to you 9 Dewar, Isla Keeping up with Magda 10 DeWitt, Patrick The sisters brothers 10 Doerr, Anthony All the light we cannot see 8 Donoghue, Emma Room 8 Donoghue, Emma The sealed letter 10 Donovan, Anne Being Emily 12 Donovan, Anne Buddha Da 10 Douglas, Robert Night song of the last tram Biography 10 Drayson, Nicholas A guide to the beasts of East Africa 12 Drayson, Nicholas A guide to the birds of East Africa 10 Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca 13 Dundas, Ever Goblin 10 Dunmore, Helen Birdcage walk 10 Dunmore, Helen Exposure 8 Dunmore, Helen The Siege 10 Durrell, Gerald My family and other animals Non-fiction 10 Eames, Andrea The cry of the go-away bird 10 Eames, Andrea The white shadow 8 Eco, Umberto The name of the rose 10 Egan, Jennifer Manhattan Beach 8 Page 3 of 11 Reading Group Collection Ekback, Cecilia Wolf winter 5 Elphinstone, Margaret The sea road 8 Eng, Tan Twan The garden of evening mists 8 Eng, Tan Twan The gift of rain 10 Faber, Michael Under the skin 10 Faulks, Sebastian Birdsong 10 Fiennes, William The music room 10 Fitzgerald, F Scott The great Gatsby 11 Flagg, Fannie Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 12 Flanagan, Richard The narrow road to the deep north 10 Flynn, Gillian Gone girl 12 Follett, Ken The pillars of the earth 14 Ford, Jamie Songs of Willow Frost 8 Fowler, Karen Joy We are all completely beside ourselves 10 Ford, Jamie Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet 12 Forster, E.M. Passage to India 8 Forster, E.M Howards End 8 Forster, Margaret Good wives - non fiction 8 Fox, Essie The somnambulist 8 Frank, Anne The diary of a young girl 10 Franklin, Jonathan The 33 10 Franklin, Tom The tilted world 10 Fredericks, L.R. Farundell 8 French, Ray Going under 12 Fuller, Claire Our endless numbered days 8 Gale, Patrick A place called winter 8 Gale, Patrick Notes from an exhibition 8 Galloway, Steven The cellist of Sarajevo 8 Garber, Claire Love is a thief 8 Garner, Helen The spare room 12 Gee Sophie The scandal of the season 12 Genova, Lisa Still Alice 10 Gibbons, Stella Pure Juliet 8 Gilbert, Elizabeth Eat, pray, love 12 Goddard, Robert The ways of the world 8 Godden, Rumer The peacock spring 10 Godden, Rumer The river 10 Godwin, Richard Apostle rising 7 Godwin, Peter When a crocodile eats the sun non-fiction 12 Gowda, Shilpi Secret daughter 8 Graves, Robert Goodbye to all that 4 Gray, Alex Keep the midnight out 10 Greene, Graham Brighton rock 10 Gregory, Philippa The Queen’s fool 10 Page 4 of 11 Reading Group Collection Gregson, Julia The water horse 12 Greig, Andrew In another light 4 Grenville, Kate The secret river 10 Grimbert, Philippe Secret 11 Grisham, John Camino Island 8 Gruen, Sara Water for elephants 8 Gunn, Neil The silver darlings 12 Guterson, David Snow falling on cedars 8 Haddon, Mark The curious incident of the dog in the night- 10 time Haig, Matt How to stop time 8 Hall, Araminta Everything and nothing 8 Hammer, Lotte The hanging 10 Hanff, Helene 84 Charing Cross Road 8 Hardy, Thomas Far from the madding crowd 12 Harper, Jane The dry 8 Harris, Jane Gillespie & I 10 Harris, Robert Conclave 8 Harris, Robert Fatherland 10 Harris, Robert The ghost 12 Harris, Robert Pompeii 10 Hashimi, Nadia When the moon is low 10 Healey, Emma Elizabeth is missing 12 Heller, Zoe Notes on a scandal 8 Hill, Susan The small hand 8 Hillenbrand, Laura Unbroken 8 Hislop, Victoria The thread 10 Hislop, Victoria The return 12 Hogan, Ruth The keeper of lost things 10 Holden, Wendy Born survivors 8 Homes, A.M. May we be forgiven 8 Honeyman, Gail Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine 8 Hope, Anna The ballroom 8 Horn, Dara A guide for the perplexed 10 Hosseini, Khaled The kite runner 12 Hosseini, Khaled A thousand splendid suns 12 Hosseini, Khaled And the mountains echoed Household, Geoffrey Rogue male 10 Hunter, Cara Close to home 8 Imrie, Celia Not quite nice 5 Ingleman-Sundberg, Catharina The little old lady who broke all the rules 10 Ironmonger, John Not forgetting the whale 8 Ishiguro, Kazuo Never let me go 10 Ishiguro, Kazuo The remains of the day 6 Page 5 of 11 Reading Group Collection Iturbe, Antonio The librarian of Auschwitz 10 Ivey, Eowyn To the bright edge of the world 8 Ivey, Eowyn The snow child 10 Jamie, Kathleen Sightlines 10 Janes, Diane Why don’t you come for me? 10 Jassat, Nadine Aisha Let me tell you this 10 Jenkins, Robin The cone gatherers 12 Jenkins, Robin The pearl-fishers 10 Jenoff, Pam The Kommandant’s girl 10 Jensen, Liz The rapture 12 Jewell, Lisa The girls 8 Jones, Sadie Outcast 12 Joss, Morag Across the bridge 8 Joyce, Rachel The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry 10 Kane, Jessica Francis The report 8 Kara, Lesley The rumour 10 Kay, Adam This is going to hurt Kay, Jackie Bantam 8 Kay, Jackie Ten poems of kindness 8 Kelman, Stephen Pigeon English 6 Kerr, Peter Snowball oranges 10 Keyes, Marian The brightest star in the sky 8 Khalifah, Khalid Death is hard work 10 Kidd, Sue Monk The secret life of bees 14 Kidd, Sue Monk The mermaid chair 10 Kingsolver, Barbara Flight behaviour 10 Kingsolver, Barbara The poisonwood bible 12 Kingsolver, Barbara Unsheltered 10 Kipling, Rudyard Plain tales from the hills 10 Kirk, Margaret Shadow Man 10 Kitson, Mick Sal 10 Kundera, Mila Ignorance 8 Kurkov, Andrey The milkman in the night.
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