Previous Reading

2010

April Let the Great World Spin Get Happy
Let The Great World Spin by Column McCann Get Happy by Gerald Clarke
March
Brooklyn
Fall on your Knees
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin Fall on your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald
Febuary Disobedience Village in Brazil - Good and Evil
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
January Wartime exploits of Msgr Hugh O Flaherty German soldier's homecoming after POW escape
Vatican Pimpernel by Brian Flemming Homecoming by Bernard Schlink

2009

December 12th Century England - Monastic Life Carpenters Pencil
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet Carpenters Pencil by Manuel Rivas
November Rape during WW2 in Berlin Life of Grace - sad events & happiness-UK/US
A Woman in Berlin by Hans Magnus EnzensBerger Shooting Butterflies by Marika Cobbold
October Remember Me Sinking of Titanic in 1912
Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi Ship of Dreams by Martina Devlin
September Disobdedience New Mexico - 1850's - French Missionary
Lady Chatterleys Lover D.H. Lawrence Death comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carther
August Lives of 4 orphan children - Ontario 1960's Devil and Miss Prym
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
July Voilent story-no clean getaways Two Welsh Bachelor Twins-human experiences
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
June Contradicting views on life etc. USA 1950/60's - Friendships growing up
Society of Others by William Nicholson A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
May Farce - plan to murder wife - then accused Russian/French Life - 1950's onwards
Wilt by Tom Sharpe Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
April England 1950's (Teenager after prison) Vernon on God
Outcast by Sadie Jones Vernon God Little a 21st Century Comedy by DBC Pierrre
March Suspense Thriller Short Stories - American Life
The Human Stain by Philip Roth Notes from A Big Country by Bill Bryson
February Life in Kabul Life in country Ireland
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini The Woman on the Bus by Pauline McLynn
January New York - 1950s & Depression Husband's memories following wife's death
The Bell Jar by Sylvia plath Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor

2008

December Father / Son relationship in US following devestation Friendship between 2 boys-Concentration Camp
The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Boy in the Stripped Pyjama’s by John Boyne
November Life of David Copperfield England Single Girl - New York 1940's
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Breakfeast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
October Four generations of South American family-Spiritual Spiritual side to life-past lives-reincarnation
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Only Love is Real by Dr Brian Weiss
September Post Polio victim - 1950's life in institutions in Ireland Childhood and live in Dublin -1950's onwards
The God Squad by Paddy Doyle Diamonds and the Holes in my Shoes
August Travels with his French Poodle in US 1960 Love in 1950's - old couple reunited
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July Five sisters (NI)-life and college in Dublin  
The Pineapple Tart by Ann Dunlop  
June Adoptive adults locating their mothers Murder in Costa Rica  Queens Messagner
Brother and Sister by Joanna Trollope The Honey Trap by Clive Egleton
May Murder of a Dublin judge Wexford / Dublin 1950's-1980's
The Four Courts Murder by Andrew Nugent The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
April 1209/2005 Carcassonne (FR) True Grail Turbulent times in England 1630's
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse HAVOC in its third year by Ronan Bennett
March Murder mystry & daughter's relationships Project to bring salmon to Yemen
The Abortionist’s Daughter by Elizabeth Hyde Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
February New York - 2000 onwards West Africa 1950s
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
January Gulf Stream-coast of Havana -1950s Congo - 1960's onwards
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover

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