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Reading Groups 2009

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Are you interested in joining a reading group, or searching for a good book to present to your group? 

Sevenoaks Bookshop is a point of contact for many thriving local reading groups and our Book Group Register enables us to put those customers wanting to start up their own groups in touch with each other.

We enjoy sharing with our customers ideas for good books to discuss, and listed below are a varied selection of books that customers have recommended as a ‘good read’ as well as a good choice for a book club discussion. We have also included books featured on various media book clubs.

DISCOUNT FOR READING GROUPS
Multiple copies of one title ordered and collected by one member of a group will attract a 10% discount (this offer is an alternative to our customer card scheme)

FICTION

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The Road Home
Rose Tremain     £7.99

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When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson     £7.99

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The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolano     £8.99

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Steig Larsson     £7.99

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Q & A
Vikas Swarup     £7.99
(The film Slumdog Millionaire is based on this novel)

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A Long, Long Way or
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry    £7.99

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What Was Lost
Catherine O'Flynn     £7.99

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The Language of Others
Clare Morrall     £7.99

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Day
A.L. Kennedy     £7.99

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The Shack
William P. Young     £7.99

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The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne     £6.99

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Netherland
Joseph O'Neill     £7.99

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Sea of Poppies
Armitax Ghosh     £6.99

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Fire in the Blood
Irene Nemirovsky     £7.99

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The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald     £7.99

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The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri    £7.99

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The Good Terrorist
Doris Lessing     £7.99

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Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates     £7.99

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Life Class
Pat Barker     £7.99

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid     £7.99

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The Importance of Being Kennedy
Laurie Graham     £7.99

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Trumpet Major
Thomas Hardy     £10.99

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The Solitude of Thomas Cave
Georgina Harding     £7.99

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All Passion Spent
Vita Sackville-west     £8.99

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson     £9.00

Light of Day
Graham Swift     £7.99

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Constitutional
Helen Simpson     £7.99
(short stories)

NON FICTION

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Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama     £8.99

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Black Diamonds:  The Rise & Fall of an English Dynasty
Catherine Bailey     £8.99

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Kipling Sahib:  India & the Making of Rudyard Kipling
Charles Allen     £9.99

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher:  Or the Murder at Road Hill House
Kate Summerscale     £7.99

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Gweilo:  Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Martin Booth     £7.99

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Somewhere Towards the End
Diana Athill     £7.99

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The Wild Places
Robert MacFarlane     £8.99

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Wife in the North
Judith O'Reilly     £7.99

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Better:  A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande     £8.99

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The Trader, the Owner, the Slave:  Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
James Walvin     £8.99

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The House by the Thames:  And the People who Lived There
Gillian Tindall     £8.99

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Stealing Water:  A Secret Life in an African City
Tim Ecott     £7.99

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Ghosting:  A Double Life
Jennie Erdal     £7.99

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Blood River:  A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Tim Butcher     £7.99

Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, Sevenoaks,
Kent TN13 1XJ 
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