Fernham Book Group
The Fernham Book Group started on 28 June 2002 in the hope that perhaps half a dozen people in the village would be interested in reading the same novel and spending an evening together to chat about it. Well, triple that number and you've roughly got our actual membership! Not everyone makes every meeting, of course, but a surprisingly large number do.
We're all avid readers. We also like sharing a bottle of wine, enjoying some nibbles, and having a good chat - before and after praising or condemning our latest read. And the fact that we're all women has absolutely nothing to do with it....
Our rating table
| Author | Novel | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anita Shreve | Strange Fits of Passion | Very good | |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement | Very good | |
| Peter Carey | The True History of the Kelly Gang | Variable appeal | |
| Nora Roberts | The Villa | Average | |
| Sebastian Faulks | On Green Dolphin Street | Excellent | |
| Paul Vincent | The Death of Me | Awful | |
| Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Excellent | |
| A.S. Byatt | Possession | Very good | |
| Haruki Murakami | Sputnik Sweetheart | Good | |
| Richard Russo | Empire Falls | Very good | |
| Beryl Bainbridge | According to Queeney | Good | |
| Sue Monk Kidd | The Secret Life of Bees | Very good | |
| David Lodge | Thinks | Average | |
| Anna Sebold | The Lovely Bones | Very good | |
| Monica Ali | Brick Lane | Excellent | |
| Paul Bryers | The Used Women's Book Club | Good | |
| William Boyd | Any Human Heart | Very good | |
| Book swap session | |||
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible | Excellent | |
| Audrey Niffennegger | The Time Travellers Wife | Very good | |
| Lorna Landvik | Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons | Average | |
| David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Good | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | The Jane Austen Book Club | Awful | |
| Sue Monk Kidd | The Mermaid Chair | Good | |
| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | Excellent | |
| Kazua Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Good | |
| Isabel Allende | The House of the Spirits | Good | |
| Julian Barnes | Arthur and George | Good | |
| Victoria Hislop | The Island | Good | |
| Jasper Fforde | The Big Over Easy | Good | |
| Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | Good | |
| Tim Pears | In the Place of Fallen Leaves | Very good | |
| Tim Pears | Blenheim Orchard | Good | |
| Ahdaf Soueif | The Map of Love | Like Marmite: either loved or loathed! | |
| Book swap session | |||
| A.M. Homes | This Book Could Save Your Life | A divided response: Good/Awful | |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Excellent | |
What we're reading now
Frankie and Stankie
by Barbara Trapido
The next meeting
In May, date TBD
at venue TBD
The next book after that
Also to be decided!
Interested in joining?
Contact Jayne Rice
tel. 820465
jayne @ acorn.port995.com
Village writer
Read excerpts by aspiring novelist Jayne Rice