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.
What we're reading now
A Stieg Larsson trilogy for the summer hols:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
The next meeting
The next meeting will be held on Friday, 3 September, 8pm at Claire Mellor's
Interested in joining?
Contact Jayne Rice, tel. 820465
Our reading list
The Shelfari bookshelf shows you all the books that the Fernham Book Group have read, alphabetically by author. If you'd like to know the order in which we read them, here you go!
| 2002 |
| 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 |
| 2003 |
| 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 |
| 2004 |
| 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 |
| 2005 |
| William Boyd: Any Human Heart - Very good |
| 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 |
| 2006 |
| 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 |
| 2007 |
| 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 - Opinion sharply divided |
| A.M. Homes: This Book Could Save Your Life - Divided response again |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun - Excellent |
| 2008 |
| Barbara Trapido: Frankie and Stankie - Good |
| Helen Dunmore: The Seige - Very good |
| Katharine McMahon: The Rose of Sebastopol - Very good/good |
| Markus Zusak: The Book Thief - Excellent |
| Deborah Moggach: These Foolish Things - Very good |
| 2009 |
| Rose Tremain: Music and Silence - Very good/good |
| Amy Tan: The Bonesetter's Daughter - Good |
| Ian McEwan: Saturday - Excellent |
| Stella Rimington: At Risk - Good |
| Victoria Hislop: The Return - Good |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus - Very good |
| Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture - Good |
| 2010 |
| Sarah Dunant: The Birth of Venus - Good |
| Stefan Zweig: The Post Office Girl - Good |
| Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory - Very good (though gruesome) |
| Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Good |
| Tracey Chevalier: Remarkable creatures - Good |
