Book Club
The Penguin Club Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of each month. We generally meet in The County Arms on Castle Hill, but this can vary if Club members are involved in a show at the time or if we decide to discuss this month's book over a nice meal, so follow the link to the event in the table below to double-check the location. Everybody is welcome to attend, whether or not you've had a chance to read the book!
| Date |
Book |
Author | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 14 May 2019 | *No Book Club This Month* | ||
| Tue 8 Jun 2021 | A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | |
| Tue 15 Nov 2016 | A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries found in a Skip | exander Masters | |
| Tue 14 Apr 2009 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | |
| Tue 12 Feb 2019 | A Rising Man | Abir Mukherjee | |
| Tue 12 Feb 2008 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Marina Lewycka | |
| Tue 18 Jul 2017 | A Stranger's House | Clare Chase | |
| Tue 10 Jun 2014 | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | |
| Tue 13 Jan 2009 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khalid Hosseini | |
| Tue 11 Sep 2012 | A Visit From The Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | |
| Tue 9 Aug 2011 | An Awfully Big Adventure | Beryl Bainbridge | |
| Thu 15 Dec 2016 | Arcadia | Iain Pears | |
| Tue 14 Mar 2017 | At Freddies | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| Tue 9 Mar 2021 | Balancing Acts | Nicholas Hytner | |
| Tue 10 Apr 2012 | Before I Go To Sleep | S J Watson | |
| Tue 14 Oct 2008 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Kate Atkinson | |
| Tue 13 May 2014 | Black Hills | Nora Roberts | |
| Tue 11 Feb 2020 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |
| Tue 9 Jun 2009 | Blessings | Anna Quindlen | |
| Tue 10 Mar 2009 | Busman's Honeymoon | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
| Tue 11 Dec 2007 | Case Histories | Kate Atkinson | |
| Tue 9 Oct 2012 | Catapault Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon | Paul Jim | |
| Tue 10 Jul 2018 | Childhood's End | Arthur C Clarke | |
| Tue 11 Feb 2014 | Collected Ghost Stories | M R James | |
| Tue 13 Oct 2015 | Curtain Call | Anthony Quinn | |
| Wed 8 May 2013 | Dear Lupin - Letters to a Wayward Son | Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer | |
| Tue 10 Feb 2009 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | |
| Tue 14 Dec 2010 | Dissolution | C.J. Sansom | |
| Tue 15 May 2018 | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman | |
| Tue 14 Nov 2017 | Emma | Jane Austin | |
| Tue 8 Feb 2011 | Emperor | Stephen Baxter | |
| Tue 11 Nov 2008 | Every Move You Make | David Malouf | |
| Tue 9 Mar 2010 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| Tue 12 Apr 2011 | Farewell My Lovely | Raymond Chandler | |
| Tue 9 Jan 2018 | Fear and Trembling | Amélie Nothomb | |
| Tue 10 May 2011 | Free read - poetry | ||
| Tue 10 Nov 2009 | Free read! | ||
| Tue 8 May 2007 | Gentlemen and Players | Joanne Harris | |
| Tue 12 Nov 2013 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | |
| Wed 22 Jan 2014 | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Philip Pullman | |
| Tue 12 Mar 2019 | Hag-Seed (The Tempest retold) | Margaret Atwood | |
| Tue 9 Dec 2008 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| Tue 10 Apr 2007 | Hotel World | Ali Smith | |
| Tue 10 Feb 2015 | How it all began | Penelope Lively | |
| Tue 9 Oct 2007 | Human Traces | Sebastian Faulks | |
| Tue 11 May 2021 | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | |
| Tue 11 Mar 2014 | Light Between Oceans | H. L. Stedman | |
| Tue 13 Jul 2010 | Look to Windward | Ian M Banks | |
| Tue 11 Nov 2014 | Love Nina, Dispatches from Family Life | Nina Stibbe | |
| Tue 13 Dec 2011 | Map Of A Nation | Rachael Hewitt | |
| Tue 27 Aug 2019 | Marriages are made in Bond Street | Penrose Halson | |
| Tue 12 Jun 2007 | Maskerade | Terry Pratchett | |
| Tue 12 Feb 2013 | Memento Mori | Muriel Spark | |
| Wed 13 Dec 2017 | Mothering Sunday | Graham Swift | |
| Tue 8 Nov 2011 | My Best Friend | Laura Wilson | |
| Tue 13 Sep 2016 | My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises | Fredrik Backman | |
| Tue 14 Jun 2016 | My Life In Houses | Margaret Forster | |
| Tue 13 Apr 2010 | My Sister's Keeper | Jody Picoult | |
| Sun 6 Jan 2008 | Narrow Dog to Carcassone | Terry Darlington | |
| Tue 10 Aug 2010 | Nation | Terry Pratchett | |
| Tue 17 Dec 2019 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuro Ishiguro | |
| Tue 9 Aug 2016 | No Book Club in August | ||
| Tue 14 Aug 2018 | No Book Club in August | ||
| Tue 13 Aug 2019 | No Book Club in August | ||
| Tue 12 Aug 2014 | No Book Club this month | ||
| Tue 8 Aug 2017 | No Book Club this month | ||
| Tue 11 Sep 2007 | Noughts and Crosses | Malory Blackman | |
| Tue 18 Sep 2018 | On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan | |
| Wed 8 Oct 2014 | Orphan Train | Christiana Baker Kline | |
| Tue 12 May 2009 | Penguin Lost | Andrey Kurkov | |
| Tue 8 Sep 2009 | Period Piece | Gwen Raverat | |
| Tue 13 Mar 2007 | Peter Pan in Scarlet | Geraldine McCaughrean | |
| Tue 13 Feb 2018 | Please Mr Postman | Alan Johnson | |
| Tue 14 Jul 2009 | Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| Tue 11 May 2010 | Raven Black | Ann Cleeves | |
| Tue 12 Jun 2018 | Rule Brittania | Daphne du Maurier | |
| Tue 8 Apr 2014 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Paul Torday | |
| Tue 8 Jan 2019 | Secrets of the Sea House | Elisabeth Gifford | |
| Tue 15 Jan 2013 | Shooting the Actor | Simon Callow | |
| Tue 16 Sep 2014 | Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death | James Runcie | |
| Tue 8 Jul 2014 | Skios | Michael Frayn | |
| Tue 13 Mar 2018 | Sleep No More | PD James | |
| Tue 16 Jul 2019 | Station Eleven | Emily St John Mandel | |
| Tue 9 Apr 2013 | Still Life | Louise Penny | |
| Tue 8 Mar 2011 | Swindled: from poison sweets to counterfeit coffee - the dark history of the food cheats | Bee Wilson | |
| Tue 11 Jan 2011 | Temeraire | Naomi Novik | |
| Tue 10 Jul 2007 | The Big Over Easy | Jasper Fforde | |
| Tue 9 Nov 2010 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton | |
| Tue 14 Aug 2007 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne | |
| Tue 11 Jun 2019 | The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken | Tarquin Hall | |
| Tue 17 Jan 2017 | The City in Darkness | Michael Russell | |
| Tue 12 Jan 2016 | The Collected Works of A.J.Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin | |
| Tue 11 Jun 2013 | The Complete Father Brown Stories | G K Chesterton | |
| Tue 16 Jul 2013 | The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tay | |
| Wed 15 Apr 2015 | The Deaths | Mark Lawson | |
| Tue 12 Mar 2013 | The Drowned World | J G Ballard | |
| Tue 12 Sep 2017 | The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry | |
| Tue 12 Jul 2016 | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Claire North | |
| Tue 13 Apr 2021 | The First Time Lauren Pailing Died | Alyson Rudd | |
| Tue 18 Apr 2017 | The Girl in the Spider's Web | David Lagercrantz | |
| Tue 9 Feb 2016 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | |
| Tue 14 Jun 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | |
| Tue 10 Sep 2013 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Tue 12 Jan 2010 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Club | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | |
| Tue 10 Jan 2012 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | |
| Tue 13 Sep 2011 | The Hare with Amber Eyes | Edmund de Waal | |
| Tue 10 Nov 2015 | The Harper's Quine | Pat McIntosh | |
| Tue 11 Oct 2011 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | |
| Tue 9 Jun 2015 | The Hundred-Foot Journey | Richard C Morais | |
| Tue 10 Mar 2015 | The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared | Jonas Jonasson and Rod Bradbury | |
| Tue 12 Jul 2011 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | |
| Tue 8 Mar 2016 | The Inn at the End of the World | Alice Thomas Ellis | |
| Tue 9 Sep 2008 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| Tue 13 Jun 2017 | The Kraken Wakes | John Windham | |
| Tue 12 Oct 2010 | The Last Family in England | Matt Haig | |
| Tue 12 Dec 2006 | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |
| Tue 10 Apr 2018 | The Mesmerist | Barbara Ewing | |
| Tue 21 Feb 2017 | The Miniaturist | Jessie Burton | |
| Tue 13 Nov 2012 | The Most Beautiful Thing | Fiona Robyn | |
| Tue 8 Dec 2015 | The Museum of Extraordinary Things | Alice Hoffman | |
| Tue 14 Sep 2010 | The Night Climbers of Cambridge | Whipplesnaith | |
| Tue 8 Oct 2013 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |
| Tue 17 May 2016 | The Penguin Lessons | Tom Michell | |
| Tue 9 May 2017 | The Road to Little Dribbling | Bill Bryson | |
| Tue 10 Jul 2012 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | |
| Tue 9 Jan 2007 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| Tue 14 Feb 2012 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | |
| Tue 13 Mar 2012 | The Sisters of Sinai | Janet Soskice | |
| Tue 12 Apr 2016 | The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor | |
| Tue 14 Jan 2020 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | |
| Tue 13 Feb 2007 | The Third Policeman | Flann O'Brien | |
| Tue 13 Oct 2009 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffeneger | |
| Tue 8 Jun 2010 | The Unbearable Lightness of Scones | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| Tue 13 Jan 2015 | The Universe vs Alex Woods | Gavin Extense | |
| Tue 10 Oct 2017 | The Vanishing Futurist | Charlotte Hobson | |
| Tue 10 Mar 2020 | The Wardrobe Mistress | Patrick McGrath | |
| Tue 9 Feb 2010 | The Water Clock | Jim Kelly | |
| Tue 9 Dec 2014 | This Boy | Alan Johnson | |
| Tue 9 Oct 2018 | This Is Going To Hurt | Adam Kay | |
| Tue 8 Dec 2009 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | |
| Tue 21 Jul 2015 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Leee | |
| Tue 9 Apr 2019 | Towards the end of the morning | Michael Frayn | |
| Tue 13 Nov 2018 | Vintage Murder | Ngaio Marsh | |
| Tue 11 Dec 2018 | Waiting for Hitler | Midge Gillies | |
| Tue 8 May 2012 | Wake | Robert Sawyer | |
| Tue 8 Oct 2019 | Wally Funk's Race for Space | Sue Nelson | |
| Tue 8 Sep 2015 | Warm Bodies | Isaac Marion | |
| Tue 12 Aug 2008 | White Gold | Giles Milton | |
| Wed 20 Nov 2019 | Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | |
| Tue 11 Oct 2016 | You Should Have Known | Jean Hanff Korelitz |
