The Garden of Evening Mists is the second English-language novel by Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng, first published in January 2012. The book follows protagonist Teoh Yun Ling, who was a prisoner of the Japanese during the World War II, and later became a judge overseeing war crimes cases.

All welcome - whether you have read the book or not.  Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link. 

Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 11 in 1596. It won the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Fiction Prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. The novel was included on 15 lists of the best books of 2020.

All welcome - whether you have read the book or not. We are currently meeting on Zoom, if you would like to join us please email the library or message us via facebook and we will send you the link. 

Under the Skin is a 2000 science fiction novel by Michel Faber. Set in northern Scotland, it traces an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet.

All welcome - whether you have read the book or not. We are currently meeting on Zoom, if you would like to join us please email the library or message us via facebook and we will send you the link. 

Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world–until the unthinkable happens. In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery.

All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.

Shuggie Bain is the debut novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart, published in 2020. It tells the story of the youngest of the three children, Shuggie, growing up with his alcoholic mother, Agnes, in the 1980s, in a post-industrial working-class Glasgow, Scotland.

All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.

In Avni Doshi’s Booker-shortlisted novel, Tara chooses to pursue her own desires, even as they come at an appalling cost. A restless and discontented young woman in 1980s India, she becomes so enthralled by a guru at a local ashram that she neglects her baby and abandons her marriage. She is absent and unrepentant, thoughtless of her daughter Antara, who later dispassionately describes how she “would disappear every day, dripping with milk, leaving me unfed”.

All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.

The New Wilderness is Diane Cook's debut novel that brings to life a wildly imaginative and terrifying dystopian story of a mother's battle to save her daughter from a world ravaged by climate change. Touching on humanity and our contempt for nature, this is a timely and compelling novel.

All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link

Homegoing is an epic novel in every sense of the word - spanning three centuries, Homegoing is a sweeping account of two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana and the lives of their many generations of descendants in America.

All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link