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Reading for Pleasure at Wenlock Books
Reading Dates for 2008
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January
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9th, 2pm
Persephone Reading Group: Every Eye by Isobel English
This 1956 novel is about a girl growing up to what could have been unhappiness, but for her marriage to a carefree younger man. As she travels south by train to Ibiza she surveys her past life and unravels a mystery.
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11th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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16th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: Atonement by Ian McEwan
Atonement is set in 1935, when 13 year old Bryony Tallis is a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Based on events she sees but doesn't quite understand, she becomes the reason an innocent man is convicted of a terrible crime.
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23rd, 7:00pm
Persephone Reading Group: Every Eye by Isobel English
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30th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: Atonement by Ian McEwan
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February
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6th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
A grim and haunting read about the ultimate power of love in the most appalling of circumstances. Set in a Burmese prison camp, a political prisoner is serving 20 years solitary confinement. Not for the faint-hearted. Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers 2007.
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8th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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20th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
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28th February - 2nd March
Reader's Retreat
Broniwan, Rhyd Lewis, Llandyssul
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March
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5th, 2pm
Persephone Reading Group: They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple
Having enjoyed Someone at a Distance so much, I am looking forward to another Whipple. A Book Society Choice shortlisted for the Femina-Vie Heureusa prize, this straightforwardly told story is more subtle than first appears.
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7th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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12th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
Irene Nemirovsky was a Ukrainian-born Jew living and writing in Paris. In 1940 she and her family left Paris ahead of the invading German army. She spent two years completing two parts of a five part novel, before being arrested and sent to her death at Auschwitz.
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12th, 7pm
Persephone Reading Group: They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple
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19th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: Suite FranÇaise by Irene Nemirovsky
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April
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Sunday 6th 11am - 4pm
Reader's Day, Brook Cottage, Clungunford:
Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson and Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean - set against the backdrop of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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9th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: An Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
A rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage and its consequences over three generations. The inimitable Anne Tyler bears witness to the complex entanglements of family life in a wise, humorous and perceptive novel.
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11th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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23rd, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: An Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
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May
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7th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This novel is about Africa, about moral responsibility, the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race, and about how love can complicate all these things.
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9th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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21st, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Sunday 25th 11am - 4pm
Reader's Day, Brook Cottage, Clungunford:
a selection of books by Doris Lessing; to be chosen at previous Reader's Day
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June
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4th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Written between 1811 - 13, and published in 1814, it marks a return to writing for Austen after a break of some ten years.
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13th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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18th, 2pm
Persephone Reading Group: A Woman's Place 1910 - 75 by Ruth Adam
"The most readable review of twentieth century's women's lives yet written."
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18th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: : Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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25th, 7pm
Persephone Reading Group: A Woman's Place 1910 - 75 by Ruth Adam
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July
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2nd, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: Their Eyes Were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A chance to revisit this classic of black American literature of which Alice Walker said "No book is more important to me than this one." Considered one of the finest black novels of all time, this book is a celebration of black folk culture, of love between equals, of a woman's self discovery.
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4th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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16th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: Their Eyes Were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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August
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NO MEETINGS
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September
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10th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Although it focuses on the fate of a few powerless individuals, Kiran Desai's extraordinary new novel manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence.
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12th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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24th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
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October
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8th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: Spies by Michael Frayn
Frayn's 2002 novel about two boys in wartime England, who believe one of their mother's to be a spy, is about how we as children make sense of the adult world.
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8th, 7pm
Persephone Reading Group: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
If you haven't read this already, you're in for a treat!
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10th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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15th, 2pm
Persephone Reading Group: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
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15th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: Spies by Michael Frayn
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November
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5th, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf
It was on his honeymoon in 1912 that Leonard Woolf began writing his second (and final) novel. He was 31, newly returned from seven years as a colonial administrator, and asking himself much the same questions as his hero. Helen Dunmore wrote in The Sunday Times: 'It's a passionate, cuttingly truthful story of a love affair between two people struggling against the prejudices of their time and place. Woolf's writing is almost unbearably honest.'
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14th, 4:30pm
Children's Reading Group
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19th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf
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December
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3rd, 2pm
Reading for Pleasure: One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
A jolly murder mystery for Christmas, following the fortunes of Jackson Brodie whom we met first in Case Histories.
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10th, 7pm
Reading for Pleasure: One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
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12th, 4:30pm - 6pm
Children's Reading Group Christmas Party
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Anna Dreda.
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2007 Reading Group Archive
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BBC Radio 4 FM
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The Reading Group Commissions
Thursday 27/03/2008 11:30-12:00

Documentary following the commissioning process of this week's Afternoon Readings on Radio 4, from the first meeting to the final performance of the stories at the Birmingham Book Festival.

Listen again >>
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You can hear the readings on the
Afternoon Reading Website >>
Hear about our 'Best of the Best' Reading group on Radio 4 Womens Hour >>