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Redleaf Book Club
The Redleaf Book Club was set up by the Woollahra Library Friends members in early 2003 and meets on the evening of the first Monday of the month at Double Bay Central Library from 6pm to 7pm.
All new members are welcome. If you are interested in joining the Redleaf Book Club or would like further information leave a message at the Library for the Club secretary, Susan Wolkowicz, and she will contact you.
Books to be discussed in 2012
| Date | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Febuary | Somerset Maugham | The razor’s edge |
| 5 March | Geraldine Brooks | Year of wonders |
| 2 April | L P Hartley | The go-between |
| 7 May | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Uncle Tom’s cabin |
| 4 June | David Lodge | Deaf sentence |
| 2 July | Alan Paton | Cry the beloved country |
| 6 August | Shuichi Yoshi | Villain |
| 3 September | Justin Cartwright | Other people’s money |
| 8 October | Liz Byrski | Last chance Cafe |
| 5 November | Julian Barnes | The sense of an ending |
| 3 December | Christmas party and recommendations for holiday reading |
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Books discussed in previous years
| Year |
Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 |
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin |
Three cups of tea |
| Penelope Lively |
Moon tiger |
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| Orhan Parmuk |
My name is Red |
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| Kazuo Ishiguro |
An artist of the floating world |
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| Michael Robotham |
The suspect |
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| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich |
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| Kingsley Amis |
Stanley and the women |
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| Christina Stead |
The man who loved children |
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| Harper Lee |
To kill a mocking bird |
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| Muriel Barbery |
The Elegance of the hedgehog |
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| 2010 | Simon Winchester | Bomb, book and compass |
| Guiseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa | The Leopard | |
| Laura Lippman | Life sentences | |
| Aravind Adiga | The white tiger | |
| Tracy Chevalier | Remarkable creatures | |
| Louis de Bernieres | Birds without wings | |
| David Malouf | Remembering Babylon | |
| Sebastian Barry | The secret scripture | |
| John Banville | The sea | |
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | |
| Christmas function | ||
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2009 |
Stieg Larsson | The girl with the dragon tattoo |
| Per Petterson | Out staling horses | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | |
| Gail Tsukiyama | The Samurai's garden | |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Infidel | |
| Qiu Xiaolong | Death of a red heroine | |
| Geraldine Brooks | People of the book | |
| Anne Henderson | Enid Lyons : leading lady to a nation | |
| Philip Roth | Indignation | |
| Margaret Throsby | Talking with Margaret Throsby | |
| 2008 | Markus Zusak | The book thief |
| Irene Nemirovsky | Suite Francaise | |
| Vikram Seth | Two Lives | |
| Patrick Gale | Notes from and exhibition | |
| Mark Kurzem | The Mascot | |
| Khaled Hosseini | A thousand splendid suns | |
| Anita Desai | Fasting, feasting | |
| Ian McEwan | On Chesil beach | |
| Anne Enright | The gathering | |
| Janet Frame | Towards another summer | |
| 2007 | Vikram Seth | An Equal Music |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night | |
| Andrea Levy | Small Island | |
| Jenna Blum | Those Who Saved Us | |
| Marina Lewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian | |
| Catherine Cole | The Grave at Thu Le | |
| Nicole Krauss | The History of Love | |
| Christopher Kremmer | Inhaling the Mahatma | |
| Elizabeth George | What Came Before he Shot Her | |
| Charles Frazier | Thirteen Moons | |
| 2006 | Bem Le Hunte | There Where the Pepper Tree Grows |
| Lusia Przybyszewicz | All that there was | |
| Nigel Marsh | Fat, Forty and Fired | |
| Anne Fairbairn | Poetry with Anne Fairbairn as Guest Poet | |
| Mary Lawson | Crow Lake | |
| Allan Hollingsworth | The Line of Beauty | |
| Milan Kundera | The Joke | |
| Barbara Trapido | Frankie and Stankie | |
| Scott McBain | The Mastership game | |
| Kate Grenville | Secret River | |
| 2005 | Marge Piercy | Three women |
| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner | |
| Charlotte Wood | The Submerged Cathedral | |
| Michelle Krester | The Hamilton Case | |
| Ian McEwan | Comfort of Strangers | |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement | |
| Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | |
| Ian McEwan | The Child in Time | |
| Ian McEwan | Enduring Love | |
| Ian McEwan | The Cement Garden | |
| Helen Garner | Joe Cinque's Consolation | |
| Tim Winton | Dirt Music | |
| Anne Fairbairn | Feathers and the horizon | |
| Anne Fairbairn | Shadows of our dreaming | |
| Anne Fairbairn | Sunlines | |
| Katherine Fox | Malicious Intent | |
| Marian Halligan | The Point | |
| 2004 | Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a pearl earring |
| Patrick White | The Aunts Story | |
| Helen Garner | The First Stone | |
| Gerldine Brooks | Foreign correspondence | |
| Richard Flanagan | Death of a River guide | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | The Poisonwood Bible | |
| Anthony O'Neill | The Lamplighter | |
| Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim | |
| Peter Goldsworthy | Three Dog Night | |
| Iris Murdoch | The Sandcastle | |
| Niall Williams | As it is in Heaven | |
| 2003 | Margaret Atwood | Alias Grace |
| Simon Winchester | Surgeon of Crowthorn | |
| Yann Martel | Life of Pi | |
| Warren Fellows | The Damage done | |
| Kate Jennings | Moral Hazard | |
| Mara Moustafine | Secrets and Spies | |
| Elizabeth Von Arneim | Elizabeth in her German Garden | |
| Alain de Botton | The Consolation of Philosophy | |
| Christina Lamb | The sewing circles of Herat |