Novel Readers

'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce

'Last Orders' by Graham Swift

'England Made Me' by Graham Greene

'The Great Gatsby' by Scott Fitzgerald'

'Every Man for Himself' by Beryl Bainbridge

'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert

'Under the Greenwood Tree' by Thomas Hardy

'The Ghost Road' by Pat Barker

'Moon Tiger' by Penelope Lively

'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' by Kate Atkinson

'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf

'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' by Louis le Bernieres

'Under the Greenwood Tree' by Thomas Hardy

'A Passage to India' by E.M. Forester

'Under the Net' by Iris Murdoch

'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Conan Doyle

	The Novel Readers meet at the convenor's home during the more inclement months of the year, usually between January and April and from October to Christmas. The books chosen by the convenor are selected with a view to covering widely different writers, nationalities, styles and periods. The plots and text are analysed in some detail and readers normally come with a small selection which they wish to read and share with other group members. This generates much discussion and it is often surprising how widely opinions vary. Perhaps, because of this, participants become exposed to different judgements and opinions in a way which widens and enriches understanding. Some of the books which have been read recently are shown below.