'Our favourite reads' as selected by our Group

Poetry / Verse

Crime / Thriller

Poetry / Verse

The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot

If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope

Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin

The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction

Crime / Thriller

Poetry / Verse

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Grumble's Yard by John Rowe Townsend (Children's Fiction)

Crime / Thriller

Crime / Thriller

Psychological Fiction

Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

Psychological Fiction

Psychological Fiction

Psychological Fiction

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve

Romantic Fiction

Psychological Fiction

Historical Fiction

Tell Me Your Secret by Deirdre Purcell

Sea Glass by Anita Shreve

Historical Fiction

Psychological Fiction

Historical Fiction

Q by Luther Blissett

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Tidelands by Phillipa Gregory

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Preservation by Jack Serong

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson

Goat Song by Frank Yerby

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Comic Novels

20th Century Classics

Comic Novels

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy

Wilt by Tom Sharpe

Classics

20th Century Classics

Comic Novels

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

20th Century Classics

20th Century Classics

Spiritual / Religious / Mystic / Fantasy

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Spiritual / Religious / Mystic / Fantasy

Spiritual / Religious / Mystic / Fantasy

Spiritual / Religious / Mystic / Fantasy

The Ocean at the end of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin

The Bell by Iris Murdock

Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny

Autobiographies / Biographies / Diaries

Spiritual / Religious / Mystic / Fantasy

Autobiographies / Biographies / Diaries

Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

Goodbye to all That by Robert Graves

Diaries (9 Vols) by James Lees Milne

Prodigious Youth: Diaries 1907 - 1914 by Sergey Prokofiev

Behind The Mask: Diaries 1915 - 1923 by Sergey Prokofiev

Prodigal Son: Diaries 1923 - 1933 by Sergey Prokofiev

Henry "Chips" Channon - The Diaries, Vol. 1: 1918 - 1938. Edited by Simon Heffer

Non Fiction

Spiritual / Religious / Mystic / Fantasy

Autobiographies / Biographies / Diaries

Desert Island Discs by Roy Plomley

More selections

Travel Books and Journals

Travel Books and Journals

Travel Books and Journals

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry Garrard

Attention all Shipping by Charlie Connelly

My Old Man and the Sea, A Father and Son sail around the Cape Horn by Daniel and David Hays

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart

The Singing Line by Alice Thomson

Science Fiction

Travel Books and Journals

Travel Books and Journals

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

The Invisible Man by H G Wells

War of the Worlds by H G Wells

The Domes of Mars by Patrick Moore (Children's Sci-Fi)

Music / Music Critique

Travel Books and Journals

Music / Music Critique

The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn

Miles Davis, A Critical Biography by Ian Carr

Why Bob Dylan matters by Richard F Thomas

History

Humanities

Music / Music Critique

King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler

The King Who Had To Go: Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis by Adrian Phillips

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood

Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Lives of Britain's Country Houses 1939 - 1945 by Julie Summers

Humanities

Humanities

Humanities

Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Science

Humanities

Humanities

The Amateur Astronomer by Patrick Moore