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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 8pm.

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, Grace Bendall, and she will contact you.


Books to be discussed in 2009

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2009 Author Title
February Stieg Larsson The girl with the dragon tattoo
March Per Petterson Out staling horses
April Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford
May Gail Tsukiyama The Samurai's garden
June Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel
July Qiu Xiaolong Death of a red heroine
August Geraldine Brooks People of the book
September Anne Henderson Enid Lyons : leading lady to a nation
October Philip Roth Indignation
November Margaret Throsby Talking with Margaret Throsby
December Christmas Picnic  

Books discussed in previous years

Year Author Title
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

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