South Manchester Book Group: 2006

South Manchester Book Group

We're a friendly and open reading group, and we share a love of books and discussing them with other people. We meet every fortnight, but you don't have to come to them all. It's dead simple; choose a book you like the sound of, read it (or even part of it) beforehand and turn up with a few ideas and money for beer / wine / flirtinis. It's very informal, and we're quite a friendly bunch. We meet at a pub in Didsbury around 8.30 pm, and can usually be found on the table with the books and flirtinis.

We've become rather popular recently so unfortunately aren't accepting new members just at the moment. But please drop us a line on the Contact Us form and we'll add you to our mailing list.

Our reading list, past, present, and future, appears here and a short version of what we’re reading next is here.

Thursday, 14 December 2006

Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov

Thursday, 7 December 2006

That Cafe - Christmas Meal

Details of the restaurant can be found here.

The address is 1031 Stockport Road (the A6), Levenshulme. It's located at the far end of Levenshulme as you drive from Manchester towards Stockport; on the left hand side of the road, adjacent to a pedestrian crossing.

Thursday, 30 November 2006

Andrew Motion - Poems

Due to the length of A Fine Balance, the schedule has been altered to defer it to after the Christmas and New Year break.

Instead therefore, this week we will be discussing two poems by Andrew Motion.

The first, Anne Frank Huis, is available to read on line here.

The second, Spring Wedding is available to read at the foot of this page.

Thursday, 16 November 2006

Burmese Days - George Orwell

Thursday, 2 November 2006

For Esme - With Love and Squalor - J.D. Salinger

Friday, 20 October 2006

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

Friday, 6 October 2006

Fup - Jim Dodge

Thursday, 21 September 2006

A Happy Death - Albert Camus

Thursday, 7 September 2006

Black Dogs - Ian McEwan

Thursday, 24 August 2006

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Thursday, 10 August 2006

The Pain - Pauline Smith

The Pain by Pauline Smith is a short story, available on-line here.

Thursday, 3 August 2006

Ali and Nino: A Love Story - Kurban Said

Ali and Nino: A Love Story - Kurban Said

This book has been moved from 27th July to 3rd August.

Thursday, 13 July 2006

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Thursday, 29 June 2006

The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

Thursday, 15 June 2006

If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor

Thursday, 1 June 2006

The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

Thursday, 18 May 2006

Lorelei's Secret - Carolyn Parkhurst

Thursday, 4 May 2006

Skellig - David Almond

Skellig - David Almond

Just for a change we've selected a children's novel for this week.

Thursday, 20 April 2006

Man and Boy - Tony Parsons

Thursday, 6 April 2006

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

In a late change, to the previous late change we're now back to My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (apparently early responses to the ALan Paton book weren't promising!).

Thursday, 23 March 2006

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

Thursday, 9 March 2006

Poems

A slight change this week; we'll be studying poems rather than a book.

The main poem for discussion is High Flight, by John Gillespie McGee (a copy can be found here). In addition please bring a short poem of your choice for the group to read.

Thursday, 23 February 2006

Manchester England – Dave Haslam

Thursday, 26 January 2006

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Thursday, 12 January 2006

Atonement – Ian McEwan