Book Club

Our Book Club meets every few weeks to discuss a diverse range of books by women writers.

Join our book club

If you would like to join or find out more about the book club, please contact the Library.

Our books are usually borrowed from Glasgow City Council Library Service and distributed at each meeting to members, with spare copies left for collection in the Library. After reading, books can either be left at the Library, or returned to any Glasgow City Council public library.

Below is the list of books we’ll be reading in 2008. Please note that where asterisked, members are asked to source the book themselves, and copies of other books may be limited. www.abebooks.co.uk is a good site to check and supports independent booksellers.

Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
January 2009
The Mandarins – Simone de Beauvoir
February 2008
Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller
March 2009
Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
April 2009
The Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
May 2009
Truth & Consequences – Alison Lurie
June 2009
The Finishing School – Muriel Spark
July 2009
When I lived in Modern Times – Linda Grant
August 2009
Novel on Yellow Paper – Stevie Smith
September 2009
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
October 2009
Dusty Answer – Rosamund Lehmann
November 2009
Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman – Sylvia Townsend Warner
December 2009

Some of the books we have discussed

Books selected have included contemporary writing by Scottish writers and classic fiction. Over the past two years the Book Club has read the following:

  • The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
  • The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
  • Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  • The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
  • Trumpet - Jackie Kay
  • Beloved -Toni Morrison
  • White Teeth – Zadie Smith
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  • Wuthering Heights – Charlotte Bronte
  • The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan
  • Sitting Amongst the Eskimos – Maggie Graham
  • The Cutting Room – Louise Welsh
  • Lovers, liars, conjurors and thieves – Raman Mundair
  • Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  • Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

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