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The group meets every six weeks at the library. To find out when the next meeting is, view the library events calendar.
Previous Reads
Cricklereaders June 2023 The Blue Afternoon
A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant - and that he is her father. In a matter of weeks Kay...
Cricklereaders April 2023 The Lehman Trilogy
The Lehman Trilogy is a three-act play by Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. It follows the lives of three immigrant brothers from when they arrive in America and found an investment firm through to the collapse of the company in 2008. It has been...
Cricklereaders March 2023 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
March's book chosen by Cricklereaders is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Sheehan Karunatilaka. Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil...
Cricklereaders January 2023 – The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
The book chosen for the first Cricklereaders of the year is local author Paterson Joseph's The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho. You can hear Paterson talk about his book here. Published by Little, Brown, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho is a...
Cricklereaders December 2022 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The book chosen for the last Cricklereaders of the year is Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead. Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a...
Cricklereaders October 2022 – Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov ‘The most exquisite kind of literature… I’ve put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ‘ OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive...
Cricklereaders September 2022 – Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This...
Cricklereaders August 2022 – Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity....
Cricklereaders June 2022 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Here's an intriguing snippet from the start of the book: For many years Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads, or...
Cricklereaders May 2022 – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
A highly topical read for the months of April/May. We'll be reading A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. Why not read along with us and then join us in the library to discuss? We'll meet between 1030 and 1130 in the library on Sunday 15 May....
Cricklereaders June 2023 The Blue Afternoon
A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant - and that he is her father. In a matter of weeks Kay...
Cricklereaders April 2023 The Lehman Trilogy
The Lehman Trilogy is a three-act play by Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. It follows the lives of three immigrant brothers from when they arrive in America and found an investment firm through to the collapse of the company in 2008. It has been...
Cricklereaders March 2023 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
March's book chosen by Cricklereaders is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Sheehan Karunatilaka. Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil...
Cricklereaders January 2023 – The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
The book chosen for the first Cricklereaders of the year is local author Paterson Joseph's The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho. You can hear Paterson talk about his book here. Published by Little, Brown, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho is a...
Cricklereaders December 2022 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The book chosen for the last Cricklereaders of the year is Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead. Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon’s story begins with his traumatic birth to a...
Cricklereaders October 2022 – Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov ‘The most exquisite kind of literature… I’ve put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ‘ OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive...
Cricklereaders September 2022 – Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This...
Cricklereaders August 2022 – Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity....
Cricklereaders June 2022 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Here's an intriguing snippet from the start of the book: For many years Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads, or...
Cricklereaders May 2022 – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
A highly topical read for the months of April/May. We'll be reading A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka. Why not read along with us and then join us in the library to discuss? We'll meet between 1030 and 1130 in the library on Sunday 15 May....
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Meeting Calendar
9 May
20 June
1 August
12 September