Reading List 2024
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| Date | Selection | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 8 January 2024 | The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck | 7.00pm | Library with Trevor |
| Monday 5 February | Still Life, by Sarah Winman | 7.00pm | Library with Richard |
| Monday 4 March | The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley | 7.00pm | Library with Trevor |
| Monday 8 April | Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill | 7.00pm | Library with Trevor |
| Monday 13 May | Trust, by Hernan Diaz | 7.00pm | Library with Linda |
| Monday 3 June | The Fortnight in September, by R.C. Sherriff | 6.30pm | Library/ Terrace with Roger |
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Pall Mall, Library, with Trevor, Monday 8 January, 7.00pm
When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family’s survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land – until the famine comes. The Good Earth is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice – a classic of twentieth-century literature.
Still Life, Sarah Winman
Pall Mall, Library, with Richard, Monday 5 February, 7.00pm
1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses’ chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life – and all those who love him back home in London – forever.
The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley
Pall Mall, Library, with Trevor, Monday 4 March, 7.00pm
In a beautiful old apartment block, deep in the backstreets of Paris, secrets are stirring behind every resident’s door. The lonely wife, the party animal, the curtain-twitcher, the secret lover, the watchful caretaker, the unwanted guest. One resident is missing. Only the killer holds the key to the mystery…
Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill
Pall Mall, Library, with Trevor, Monday 8 April, 7.00pm
A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers, Long Day’s Journey into Night is an intensely autobiographical, magnificently tragic portrait of the author’s own family – a play so acutely personal that he insisted it was not published until after his death.
Trust, Hernan Diaz
Pall Mall, Library, with Linda, Monday 13 May, 7.00pm
A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together, they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. Now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage. Who will have the final word in their story of greed, love, and betrayal?
The Fortnight in September, R.C. Sherriff
Pall Mall, Library/ Terrace, with Roger, Monday 3 June, 6.30pm
A bestseller in 1931, The Fortnight in September was a brave book to write because it was not obviously ‘about’ anything except the ‘drama of the undramatic’. And yet the greatness of the novel is that it is about every one of us: all of human life is here in the seemingly simple description of the family’s annual holiday in Bognor Regis.
