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 Book Group Programme  2012

All are welcome to come join us for any of the meetings. We meet at different members
homes each month (given in diary) and the person who suggested the book usually leads
the discussion.
The programme planned so far is:-
January 20th Friday Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
February The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey
March Candide by Voltaire
April Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote
May The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

We meet at different members’ homes each month and the person that proposed the book usually leads the discussion. For more information e-mail secretary@leedsivc.org.uk

    Books Discussed Already by Leeds IVC Book Group

2005
March  Persuasion - Jane Austen
April  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Hannon
May   39 Steps - John Buchan
July   The Book Seller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
August  Skin Tight - Carl Hiaasen
September  Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
October  Pompeii - Richard Harris
November  Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
December  A Christmas Carol  - Charles Dickens

2006
January  Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
February  The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
March  Life of Pi - Jan Martel
April   The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
May   The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
June   Daisy Miller - Henry James
July   The Time Traveler’ s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
August  The Princess Bride - William Goldman
September  To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
October  The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gatiss
November Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
December  Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

2007
January  The Trumpet - Jackie Kay
February  Madame Bovray - Gustave Flaubert
March  A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
April   The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
May  Silas Marner - George Eliot
June  Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
July  Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
August Memoirs of an Invisible Man - H. F. Saint
September  Poetry and Prose evening
October  David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
November  Perfume - Patrick Suskind

2008
Februray  Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
March  The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
April Wolf of the Plains - Conn Iggulden
May The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
June Small Island - Andrea Levy
July Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
August Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
September  Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
October  Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
November  A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
December Festive poems and short stories

2009

JanuaryTreasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
February  North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
MarchOn Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
April  Two Pence to Cross the Mersey - Helen Forrester
May 1984 - George Orwell
JuneThe Island -Victoria Hislop
July   Our Man In Havana - Graham Green
Aug The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Muhsin Hamid
Sept Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue
Nov  Dreams From  My Father - Barak Obama
Dec  The Reader - Bernard Schlink
Dec  This Year it will be Different - Maeve Binchy


2010
Jan Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
Feb  The Virgin & the Gypsy - D. H. Lawrence
March  The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
April The Code of the Woosters - P.G.Wodehouse
May No Book Read.
Jun  Indignation - Phillip Roth
Jul  Tale of two Cities - Charles Dickens
Aug River God by Wilbur Smith
Sept One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Oct Evolution by Stephen Baxter
Nov The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

2011
Jan South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Feb A Month in the Country by J L Carr
Mar Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
Apr The loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe.
May No book
June A Long Walk to Freedom  by Nelson Mandela
July No book