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The Beach by Alex Garland - gripping - most of us read it over 2 or 3 days and found it easy to read. It is an adventure book with depth - with a somewhat immature hero! Recommended!                      read Amazon's review

Family Life by Elizabeth Luard  We thought the book was a good read, but despite the tragedy at the end of the book we found the author on the irritating side, particularly in the family view that "rules don't apply to us!", and in the way her children seem to eat anything - from wild mushrooms to sea urchins! Ours don't!                       read Amazon's review

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels   This is about a Polish Jew saved from the German pogroms by a Greek geologist, smuggled back to his Greek island home, and what he does with the rest of his life. Some of us really enjoyed it, others found it a bit over the top. "Poetic, but confusing" was one comment!                              read Amazon's review

The Web of Belonging by Stevie Davies   We all enjoyed the book, but disagreed with the write-up on the back jacket describing it as hilarious. For us it seemed all too real to be funny.                                read Amazon's review

The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace  This is what "The Times" says about it: "In a late Stone Age village of flint knappers, a young boy loses an arm and becomes, in a world of work, a storyteller, a 'one armed man of words'. As he spins his tales, he does so to an audience whose way of life is about to die. The Bronze Age will transform their existence - it is the end of stone. This is a haunting, deeply moving novel about many things - love and loss, change and decay, chance."                     read Amazon's review

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - we had plenty to discuss.                read Amazon's review

The Egg Woman by Linda D. Cirino   Enjoyed.

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle - a seamy book which provoked quite a bit of discussion. What had happened to Carmel as a child?                          read Amazon's review

The Year's Midnight by Alex Benzie - a first novel. We considered it a pretty good book and well worth the read.                                         read Amazon's review

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières   We all enjoyed the book but were all mainly in agreement over the characters/plot/style - which made for quite a short discussion. Only the character of Mandras really provoked different opinions.                 read Amazon's review

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