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 12 Dec 2006 | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |
| Tue 9 Jan 2007 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | |
| Tue 13 Feb 2007 | The Third Policeman | Flann O'Brien | |
| Tue 13 Mar 2007 | Peter Pan in Scarlet | Geraldine McCaughrean | |
| Tue 10 Apr 2007 | Hotel World | Ali Smith | |
| Tue 8 May 2007 | Gentlemen and Players | Joanne Harris | |
| Tue 12 Jun 2007 | Maskerade | Terry Pratchett | |
| Tue 10 Jul 2007 | The Big Over Easy | Jasper Fforde | |
| Tue 14 Aug 2007 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne | |
| Tue 11 Sep 2007 | Noughts and Crosses | Malory Blackman | |
| Tue 9 Oct 2007 | Human Traces | Sebastian Faulks | |
| Tue 11 Dec 2007 | Case Histories | Kate Atkinson | |
| Sun 6 Jan 2008 | Narrow Dog to Carcassone | Terry Darlington | |
| Tue 12 Feb 2008 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Marina Lewycka | |
| Tue 12 Aug 2008 | White Gold | Giles Milton | |
| Tue 9 Sep 2008 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| Tue 14 Oct 2008 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Kate Atkinson | |
| Tue 11 Nov 2008 | Every Move You Make | David Malouf | |
| Tue 9 Dec 2008 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| Tue 13 Jan 2009 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khalid Hosseini | |
| Tue 10 Feb 2009 | Death and the Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | |
| Tue 10 Mar 2009 | Busman's Honeymoon | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
| Tue 14 Apr 2009 | A Place of Execution | Val McDermid | |
| Tue 12 May 2009 | Penguin Lost | Andrey Kurkov | |
| Tue 9 Jun 2009 | Blessings | Anna Quindlen | |
| Tue 14 Jul 2009 | Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| Tue 8 Sep 2009 | Period Piece | Gwen Raverat | |
| Tue 13 Oct 2009 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffeneger | |
| Tue 10 Nov 2009 | Free read! | ||
| Tue 8 Dec 2009 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | |
| Tue 12 Jan 2010 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Club | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | |
| Tue 9 Feb 2010 | The Water Clock | Jim Kelly | |
| Tue 9 Mar 2010 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| Tue 13 Apr 2010 | My Sister's Keeper | Jody Picoult | |
| Tue 11 May 2010 | Raven Black | Ann Cleeves | |
| Tue 8 Jun 2010 | The Unbearable Lightness of Scones | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| Tue 13 Jul 2010 | Look to Windward | Ian M Banks | |
| Tue 10 Aug 2010 | Nation | Terry Pratchett | |
| Tue 14 Sep 2010 | The Night Climbers of Cambridge | Whipplesnaith | |
| Tue 12 Oct 2010 | The Last Family in England | Matt Haig | |
| Tue 9 Nov 2010 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton | |
| Tue 14 Dec 2010 | Dissolution | C.J. Sansom | |
| Tue 11 Jan 2011 | Temeraire | Naomi Novik | |
| Tue 8 Feb 2011 | Emperor | Stephen Baxter | |
| Tue 8 Mar 2011 | Swindled: from poison sweets to counterfeit coffee - the dark history of the food cheats | Bee Wilson | |
| Tue 12 Apr 2011 | Farewell My Lovely | Raymond Chandler | |
| Tue 10 May 2011 | Free read - poetry | ||
| Tue 14 Jun 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | |
| Tue 12 Jul 2011 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | |
| Tue 9 Aug 2011 | An Awfully Big Adventure | Beryl Bainbridge | |
| Tue 13 Sep 2011 | The Hare with Amber Eyes | Edmund de Waal | |
| Tue 11 Oct 2011 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | |
| Tue 8 Nov 2011 | My Best Friend | Laura Wilson | |
| Tue 13 Dec 2011 | Map Of A Nation | Rachael Hewitt | |
| Tue 10 Jan 2012 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | |
| Tue 14 Feb 2012 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | |
| Tue 13 Mar 2012 | The Sisters of Sinai | Janet Soskice | |
| Tue 10 Apr 2012 | Before I Go To Sleep | S J Watson | |
| Tue 8 May 2012 | Wake | Robert Sawyer | |
| Tue 10 Jul 2012 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | |
| Tue 11 Sep 2012 | A Visit From The Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | |
| Tue 9 Oct 2012 | Catapault Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon | Paul Jim | |
| Tue 13 Nov 2012 | The Most Beautiful Thing | Fiona Robyn | |
| Tue 15 Jan 2013 | Shooting the Actor | Simon Callow | |
| Tue 12 Feb 2013 | Memento Mori | Muriel Spark | |
| Tue 12 Mar 2013 | The Drowned World | J G Ballard | |
| Tue 9 Apr 2013 | Still Life | Louise Penny | |
| Wed 8 May 2013 | Dear Lupin - Letters to a Wayward Son | Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer | |
| Tue 11 Jun 2013 | The Complete Father Brown Stories | G K Chesterton | |
| Tue 16 Jul 2013 | The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tay | |
| Tue 10 Sep 2013 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Tue 8 Oct 2013 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | |
| Tue 12 Nov 2013 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | |
| Wed 22 Jan 2014 | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Philip Pullman | |
| Tue 11 Feb 2014 | Collected Ghost Stories | M R James | |
| Tue 11 Mar 2014 | Light Between Oceans | H. L. Stedman | |
| Tue 8 Apr 2014 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Paul Torday | |
| Tue 13 May 2014 | Black Hills | Nora Roberts | |
| Tue 10 Jun 2014 | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | |
| Tue 8 Jul 2014 | Skios | Michael Frayn | |
| Tue 12 Aug 2014 | No Book Club this month | ||
| Tue 16 Sep 2014 | Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death | James Runcie | |
| Wed 8 Oct 2014 | Orphan Train | Christiana Baker Kline | |
| Tue 11 Nov 2014 | Love Nina, Dispatches from Family Life | Nina Stibbe | |
| Tue 9 Dec 2014 | This Boy | Alan Johnson | |
| Tue 13 Jan 2015 | The Universe vs Alex Woods | Gavin Extense | |
| Tue 10 Feb 2015 | How it all began | Penelope Lively | |
| Tue 10 Mar 2015 | The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared | Jonas Jonasson and Rod Bradbury | |
| Wed 15 Apr 2015 | The Deaths | Mark Lawson | |
| Tue 9 Jun 2015 | The Hundred-Foot Journey | Richard C Morais | |
| Tue 21 Jul 2015 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Leee | |
| Tue 8 Sep 2015 | Warm Bodies | Isaac Marion | |
| Tue 13 Oct 2015 | Curtain Call | Anthony Quinn | |
| Tue 10 Nov 2015 | The Harper's Quine | Pat McIntosh | |
| Tue 8 Dec 2015 | The Museum of Extraordinary Things | Alice Hoffman | |
| Tue 12 Jan 2016 | The Collected Works of A.J.Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin | |
| Tue 9 Feb 2016 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | |
| Tue 8 Mar 2016 | The Inn at the End of the World | Alice Thomas Ellis | |
| Tue 12 Apr 2016 | The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor | |
| Tue 17 May 2016 | The Penguin Lessons | Tom Michell | |
| Tue 14 Jun 2016 | My Life In Houses | Margaret Forster | |
| Tue 12 Jul 2016 | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Claire North | |
| Tue 9 Aug 2016 | No Book Club in August | ||
| Tue 13 Sep 2016 | My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises | Fredrik Backman | |
| Tue 11 Oct 2016 | You Should Have Known | Jean Hanff Korelitz | |
| Tue 15 Nov 2016 | A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries found in a Skip | exander Masters | |
| Thu 15 Dec 2016 | Arcadia | Iain Pears | |
| Tue 17 Jan 2017 | The City in Darkness | Michael Russell | |
| Tue 21 Feb 2017 | The Miniaturist | Jessie Burton | |
| Tue 14 Mar 2017 | At Freddies | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| Tue 18 Apr 2017 | The Girl in the Spider's Web | David Lagercrantz | |
| Tue 9 May 2017 | The Road to Little Dribbling | Bill Bryson | |
| Tue 13 Jun 2017 | The Kraken Wakes | John Windham | |
| Tue 18 Jul 2017 | A Stranger's House | Clare Chase | |
| Tue 8 Aug 2017 | No Book Club this month | ||
| Tue 12 Sep 2017 | The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry | |
| Tue 10 Oct 2017 | The Vanishing Futurist | Charlotte Hobson | |
| Tue 14 Nov 2017 | Emma | Jane Austin | |
| Wed 13 Dec 2017 | Mothering Sunday | Graham Swift | |
| Tue 9 Jan 2018 | Fear and Trembling | Amélie Nothomb | |
| Tue 13 Feb 2018 | Please Mr Postman | Alan Johnson | |
| Tue 13 Mar 2018 | Sleep No More | PD James | |
| Tue 10 Apr 2018 | The Mesmerist | Barbara Ewing | |
| Tue 15 May 2018 | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman | |
| Tue 12 Jun 2018 | Rule Brittania | Daphne du Maurier | |
| Tue 10 Jul 2018 | Childhood's End | Arthur C Clarke | |
| Tue 14 Aug 2018 | No Book Club in August | ||
| Tue 18 Sep 2018 | On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan | |
| Tue 9 Oct 2018 | This Is Going To Hurt | Adam Kay | |
| Tue 13 Nov 2018 | Vintage Murder | Ngaio Marsh | |
| Tue 11 Dec 2018 | Waiting for Hitler | Midge Gillies | |
| Tue 8 Jan 2019 | Secrets of the Sea House | Elisabeth Gifford | |
| Tue 12 Feb 2019 | A Rising Man | Abir Mukherjee | |
| Tue 12 Mar 2019 | Hag-Seed (The Tempest retold) | Margaret Atwood | |
| Tue 9 Apr 2019 | Towards the end of the morning | Michael Frayn | |
| Tue 14 May 2019 | *No Book Club This Month* | ||
| Tue 11 Jun 2019 | The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken | Tarquin Hall | |
| Tue 16 Jul 2019 | Station Eleven | Emily St John Mandel | |
| Tue 13 Aug 2019 | No Book Club in August | ||
| Tue 27 Aug 2019 | Marriages are made in Bond Street | Penrose Halson | |
| Tue 8 Oct 2019 | Wally Funk's Race for Space | Sue Nelson | |
| Wed 20 Nov 2019 | Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | |
| Tue 17 Dec 2019 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuro Ishiguro | |
| Tue 14 Jan 2020 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | |
| Tue 11 Feb 2020 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |
| Tue 10 Mar 2020 | The Wardrobe Mistress | Patrick McGrath | |
| Tue 9 Mar 2021 | Balancing Acts | Nicholas Hytner | |
| Tue 13 Apr 2021 | The First Time Lauren Pailing Died | Alyson Rudd | |
| Tue 11 May 2021 | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann |
