SEVENOAKS BOOKSHOP
147 High Street, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1XJ OPENING HOURS
Tel : 01732 452055 Fax : 01732 450933 MON -
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 15% discount. This offer is an alternative to our customer card scheme and does not apply to titles already on special offer in the shop.
147 High Street, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1XJ
Tel: 01732 452055 Fax: 01732 450933
enquiries@sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Helen Simonson £7.99
A gentle & humorous love affair unsettles the locals in a picturesque English village.
Pigeon English*
Stephen Kelman £7.99
Gang warfare on a London Estate.
Underground Time
Delphine de Vigan £7.99
Two unhappy Parisians who may or may not be destined to meet.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet Jamie Ford £7.99
Love & friendship during Japanese internment, WWII.
Gillespie & I
Jane Harris £7.99
Witty Victorian mystery set in Glasgow.
The Sisters Brothers*
Patrick deWitt £7.99
Avarice and revenge in the wild west.
Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosnay £7.99
A journalist uncovers a family
secret dating from the notorious round up of Jews, Paris 1942.
Before I Go to Sleep
S.J. Watson £7.99
A terrible accident has robbed Christine of her memories.
When God Was a Rabbit
Sarah Winman £7.99
Darkly comic coming-
The Novel in the Viola
Natasha Solomons £7.99
1938, a Jewish refugee joins the staff of a country house in Dorset.
The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach £8.99
A gently thoughtful, middle-
Sense of An Ending
Julian Barnes £7.99 (March)
Man Booker Prize 2011.
Inhibition, class, regret and the imperfections of memory.
Still Missing
Beth Gutcheon £14
Susan Selky faces a parent’s worst nightmare -
unputdownable.
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away*
Christie Watson £7.99
Divorce shatters family life in Lagos. Debut novel.
Snowdrops*
A.D. Miller £7.99
Corruption, decadence, greed and betrayal in post-
Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James £12.99 March, £7.99 July Pitch-
The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obreht £7.99
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011. A doctor investigates the death of her grandfather in the postwar chaos of the Balkans.
Pure
Andrew Miller £8.99
Costa Book of the Year Award 2011. The exhumation of an
overcrowded cemetery in
pre-
We Had It so Good
Linda Grant £7.99
The chronicle of a London family from the late sixties to the present.
Intuition
Allegra Goodman £7.99
A scandal erupts in a cancer-
The Paris Wife
Paula McLain £7.99
Elegantly imagined look at the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson.
Little Infamies
Panos Karnezis £7.99
Remarkable stories of everyday life in a Greek village.
Revisit some classics …
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons £7.99 (1932)
This comic novel parodies the doom-
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald £7.99 (1925)
This American classic offers a damning & insightful view of a post-
Tess of the d’Urbevilles
Thomas Hardy £7.99
Gloomy yes, but worth it!
*shortlisted for the Man Booker
Prize 2011
FICTION
Are you interested in joining a Book Group? If so, please phone the Bookshop on 01732 452055 and we will put you in touch with existing groups looking for new members or others wishing to start new groups.
Sugar Barons: Family,
Corruption, Empire & War
Matthew Parker £8.99
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
Sinclair McKay £8.99
Red Dust Road
Jackie Kay £8.99
How to be a Woman
Caitlin Moran £11.99
March £7.99
The Stranger in the Mirror
Jane Shilling £8.99
To a Mountain in Tibet
Colin Thubron £8.99
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza
Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Izzeldin Abuelaish £8.99
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua £7.99
.. and for an alternative view of parenting
French Children Don’t Throw Food Pamela Druckerman £15
Poser: A Mother’s Life in 23 Poses
Claire Dederer £7.99
All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
Matthew Hollis £9.99
NON FICTION
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