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'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

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

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