About the West Ealing Neighbours’ Book Group

If you’ve been thinking of joining a book group, you’d be welcome to join us.  We’re a friendly bunch, made up of local people who like reading or want to get into reading regularly and enjoy talking about books. We meet at 7.30pm on the last Wednesday of every month, usually in The Grosvenor pub in Oaklands Road, W7 2DT.

If you fancy joining us or you have any questions, please contact Lucy at wenreadinggroup@live.co.uk

2024

• Dec/Jan – Midnight’s children by Salman Rushdie
• 27 Nov – Trust: anatomy of a marriage by Rita Dallas
• 30 Oct – This is happiness by Niall Williams
• 25 Sep – Yellow Face by R. F. Kuang
• 28 Aug – Junior Choice: share your favourite children’s book
• 31 Jul – Washington Square by Henry James
• 26 Jun – Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
• 29 May – I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• 24 Apr – Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
• 27 Mar – Salt Path by Raynor Winn
• 28 Feb – Changed to: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
• 31 Jan – Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

2023

• Dec – no book
• 29 Nov – Dear Life by Alice Munro
• 25 Oct – Good Soldier Schweik [Svejk] by Jaroslav Hasek
• 27 Sep – Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
• 30 Aug – Desert Island choices – a book and record you would like to be washed ashore with
• 26 Jul – Small things like these by Claire Keegan
• 28 Jun – Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
• 31 May – Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
• 26 Apr – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• 29 Mar – Affinity by Sarah Waters
• 22 Feb – Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• 25 Jan – Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

2022

• Dec – no book
• 30 Nov – To the Wedding by John Berger
• 26 Oct – Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
• 28 Sep – Persuasion by Jane Austen
• 31 Aug – Bring along a book you’ve read on holiday or enjoyed elsewhere.
• 27 Jul – French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
• 29 Jun – Lady with the Little Dog and other stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekov, translated by Ronald Wilkes (Penguin Classics series)
• 25 May – Autumn by Ali Smith
• 27 Apr – Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
• 30 Mar – Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
• 23 Feb – Me by Elton John
• 26 Jan – Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

2021

• Dec – no book
• 24 Nov – Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• 27 Oct – View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
• 29 Sep – Circe by Madeline Miller
• 25 Aug – Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• 28 Jul – Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
• 30 Jun – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• 26 May – The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• 28 Apr – Escape from Pretoria by Tim Jenkin (out of print)
• 31 Mar – Drive Your Plow Over The Bones… by Olga Tokarczuk
• 24 Feb – Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
• 27 Jan – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

2020

• Dec – no book
• 25 Nov – My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• 28 Oct – Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
• 30 Sep – Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
• 26 Aug – American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• 29 July – The Secret River by Kate Grenville
• 24 Jun – We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• 27 May – The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• 29 Apr – In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
• 25 Mar – Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• 26 Feb – Plot against America by Philip Roth
• 29 Jan – Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

2019

• Dec – no book
• 27 Nov – Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. Also available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p075drzy/episodes/player
• 30 Oct – The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
• 25 Sep – Lullaby by Leila Slimani
• 28 Aug – The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail
• 31 Jul – changed to: The Best of Saki published by Picador in 1976
• 26 Jun – A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall
• 29 May – The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
• 24 Apr –  The Vegetarian by Han Kang
• 27 Mar – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• 27 Feb – Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• 30 Jan – Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

2018

• Dec – no book
• 28 Nov – Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• 31 Oct – Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• 26 Sep – 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
• 29 Aug – My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• 25 Jul – Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
• 27 Jun – The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• 30 May – Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
• 25 Apr – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• 28 Mar – Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• 28 Feb – Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• 31 Jan – Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

2017

• Dec – no book
• 29 Nov – Carol by Patricia Highsmith
• 25 Oct – Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
• 27 Sept – Watching the English by Kate Fox
• 30 Aug – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• 26 Jul – Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
• 28 Jun – End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• 31 May – On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• 26 Apr – Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• 29 Mar – Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
• 22 Feb – Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
• 25 Jan – The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

2016

• Dec – no book
• 30 Nov – Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• 26 Oct – The Rotter’s Club by Jonathan Coe
• 28 Sep – The Latecomers by Anita Brookner
• 31 Aug – Middlemarch by George Eliot
• 27 Jul – Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• 29 Jun – The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
  
• 25 May – Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• 27 Apr – The Circle by David Eggers
• 23 Mar – Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
• 24 Feb – Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland
• 27 Jan – Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirowsky

2015

• 25 November – The Bees by Laline Paull
• 28 October – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
• 30 September – Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• 26 August – Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• 29 July – Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
• 24 June – Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
• 27 May – The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• 29 April – Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• 25 March – Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
• 25 February – Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
• 28 January – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

2014

• 26 November – Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
• 29 October – Stoner by John Williams
• 24 September – Wise Women by Angela Carter
• 27 August – Longbourn by Jo Baker
• 30 July – The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• 17 June – trip to the Bush Theatre to see ‘Incognito’.
• 28 May – Book thief by Markus Zusak
• 30 April – Room of lost things by Stella Duffy
• 26 March – Bring a poem you love or loathe
• 26 February – The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• 29 January – A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

2013

• 4 December – Murder in Peking by Paul French
• 30 October – The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• 25th September – The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
• 28th August  – The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten
• 31 July – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist by Robert Tressell
• 19 June –  Disgraced at the Bush Theatre. 
• 29 May – Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
• 24th April – A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
• 27th March – Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H Lawrence
• 27th February – The Dinner by Herman Koch.
• 23rd January – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

2012

• 6th December – Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark at the Persian Palace (Nov & Dec meeting combined).
• 24th October – Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
• 26th September – The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz by Denis Avey
• 29th August – Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• 25th July – Dissolution by CJ Sansom
• 27th June – Birthday by Joe Penhall at the Royal Court Theatre
• 30th May – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• 25th April – This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon (copies with Sarah – title not yet published)
• 28th March – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• 29th February – Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• 25th January – The Tenth Man by Graham Greene

2011

• 7th December – Christmas Social. Aunts aren’t Gentleman by PG Wodehouse
• 16th November – Jumpy by April de Angelis, play at the Royal Court
• 26th October – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• 28th September – Life by Keith Richards
• 31st August – Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
• 26th July – Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain/Samuel Clements
• 28th June – The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (at the National)
• May – The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
• April – A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• March – The Settler’s Cookbook by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
• February – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffran Foer

2010

• December/January – ‘We are all made of glue’  by Marine Lewyca
• November – ‘Oryx and Crake’ by Margaret Atwood
• September – ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ by Mitch Albom
• August – ‘The Bell’ by Iris Murdoch
• July – ‘If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things’ by Jon McGregor
• June -‘The Pregnant Widow’ by Martin Amis
• May – ‘The Siege of Krishnapur’ by JG Farrell
• April – ‘Saturday’ by Ian McEwan
• March – ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• February – ‘Loving Frank’ by Nancy Horan
• January – ‘Water for Elephants’ by Sara Gruen

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