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Paddington Library Book Club
Paddington Library Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month (with the exception of January) at 6.30pm in the Paddington Library, Paddington Town Hall, Oxford Street, Paddington. If you are interested in joining please contact Nuala Davis (email: svardis@bigpond.com) or Tony (email: abellanto@optusnet.com.au).
Members are also invited to meet at a local cinema at 6:30pm on the 3rd Monday of every month to watch a film together (cinema and film to be advised prior to the night). Nuala and Tony can also answer queries about the film night.
Books to be discussed in 2012
| Month | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| February | Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca |
| March | Arnold Zabel | Violin Lessons |
| April | Muriel Barbery | The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
| May | Kate Grenville | The Secret River |
| June | Stieg Larsson | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| July | Emma Donoghue | Room |
| August | Kathryn Stockett | The Help |
| September | Monica Lewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine |
| October | Stephene Meyer | Twilight |
| November | Robertson Davies | Murther & Walking Spirits |
| December | Helen Garner | The First Stone |
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Books discussed in previous years
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Mary Anne Shaffer & Annie Barrows | The Guernsey Literary |
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never let me go | |
| Jane Austen | Persuasion | |
| Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | |
| Book of own choice | ||
| Damon Galgut | In a strange room | |
| J. G. Farrell | Troubles | |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | |
| Paul Torday | Salmon fishing in the Yemen | |
| 2010 | Chimamanda Adichie | Half of a yellow sun |
| Nancy Horan | Loving Frank | |
| Amanda Foreman | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | |
| Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead revisited | |
| Alex Miller | Lovesong | |
| Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa | The Leopard | |
| M J Hyland | This is how | |
| John Fante | Ask the dust | |
| Sarah Waters | The little stranger | |
| Rebecca Stott | Darwin and the barnacle | |
| 2009 | Cunxin Li | Mao's last dancer |
| Geraldine Brooks | People of the book | |
| Helen Garner | The spare room | |
| Kate Atkinson | Case histories | |
| Ian McEwan | Enduring love | |
| Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand splendid suns | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood bible | |
| Mitch Albom | The Five people you meet in heaven | |
| William P Young | The Shack | |
| Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin | Three cups of tea | |
| Aravind Adiga | The white tiger | |
| 2008 | Rachel Seiffert | Afterwards |
| Ann Patchett | Bel Canto | |
| Alice Sebold | The lovely bones | |
| Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a pearl earring | |
| Audrey Niffenegger | The time traveler's wife | |
| Markus Zusak | The book thief | |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | Eat, pray, love | |
| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |