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Canonbury Cottage Book Club
The Canonbury Cottage Book Club meets in the on the first Tuesday of the month from 2.30pm at Canonbury Cottage in McKell Park, 159 Darling Point Road, Darling Point. If you are interested in joining please leave a message at the Library for Mrs Lorna Nawran and she will contact you.
Books to be discussed in 2012
Search the Library Catalogue to see if we have these titles available
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Peter Evans | Nemesis |
| March | Penelope Lively | The Photograph |
| April | Rachael Henning | Letters of Rachel Henning |
| May | Paula McLain | The Paris wife |
| June | Margaret Foster | Good wives |
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Books discussed in previous years
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Lucy Wadham | Secret Life of France |
| Tony Blair | A Journey | |
| Kathryn Stockett | The Help | |
| Louis de Bernières | Birds Without Wings | |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex | |
| Jonathan Franzen | Freedom | |
| Paul Torday | Salmon fishing in the Yemen | |
| Damon Young | Distraction | |
| Hazel Rowley | Franklin & Eleanor: an extraordinary marriage | |
| 2010 | T.C. Boyle | The Women |
| Simon Winchester | Bomb, Book and Compass | |
| Greg Mortenson | Three cups of tea | |
| J. D. Salinger | The catcher in the rye | |
| Hilary Mantel | Change of climate | |
| Tobias Wolf | Old school | |
| Alex Miller | Lovesong | |
| 2009 | Gregory David Roberts | Shantaram |
| Nora Ephron | I feel bad about my neck | |
| Frances Osborne | The Bolter | |
| Mohsin Hamid | Reluctant fundamentalist | |
| Philip Roth | Indignation | |
| Geraldine Brooks | People of the Book | |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafon | The angel's game | |
| Mary Ann Shaffer | The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society | |
| Barack Obama | Dreams of my father | |
| 2008 | Andrei Makine | A life's music |
| Sattareh Farman-Farmaian | Daughter of Persia | |
| Edna Mazya | The full catastrophe | |
| Lionel Shriver | We need to talk about Kevin | |
| Mark Kurzem | The mascot | |
| Pat Barker | Regeneration | |
| Damon Galgut | Good doctor | |
| Margaret Atwood | Cat's eye | |
| Bryce Courtenay | The persimmon tree | |
| 2007 | Nicole Krauss | History of Love |
| Irene Nemirovsky | Suite Francaise | |
| Omar Nasiri | Inside the Global Jihad | |
| Ayn Rand | The Fountainhead | |
| Richard Dawkins | The God Delusion | |
| Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | |
| Kate Mosse | Labyrinth | |
| 2006 | John Berendt | The City of falling Angels |
| Bem Le Hunt | There, Where the Pepper Tree Grows | |
| Irvin D. Yalom | Schopenhauer Cure | |
| Hazel Rowley | Tete a Tete : Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Satre | |
| Kate Grenville | The Secret River | |
| Dane Kennedy | The highly civilized man : Richard Burton and the Victorian World | |
| Bryce Courtenay | Whitehorn : a novel of Africa | |
| 2005 | Patrick White | Flaws in the glass: a self portait |
| Ken Follett | The Hammer of Eden | |
| Irvin Yalom | When Nietzsche Wept | |
| Pat Cavenish O'Neill | A Lion in the Bedrom | |
| Michael Crichton | State of Fear | |
| Tim Winton | Dirt Music | |
| Lee Cunxin | Mao's Last Dancer | |
| Carlos Ruiz Zafon | The Shadow of the Wind | |
| Dan Brown | Angels and Demons |