Riverside Readers is a vibrant, friendly and informal book club which meets at Westacre Theatre on the first Wednesday of every month – and has been doing so for more than 12 years. Run by Michael Fletcher, the group read and talk about a broad range of genres. Over the years, these have included modern fiction, classical literature, travel, biography, short stories and poetry. The group also holds an annual book swap.
If you are interested in becoming a member of Westacre Theatre’s Riverside Readers:
- call the theatre Box Office on 01760 755800.
- send an email to admin@westacretheatre.com
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday 7th August
TIME: 7.00pm
Text: Falling Angels – Tracy Chevalier
Historical List of Books
Spring 2006
The Bad Mother’s Handbook – Kate Long
Something Might Happen – Julie Myerson
The Office of Innocence – Thomas Kenneally
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Summer 2006
Burnt Out Case – Graham Greene
End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Quiet American – Graham Greene
Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
House of Women – Lynn Freed
Becoming Strangers – Louise Dean
Mr. Paradise – Elmore Leonard
Lost Lands – Alexandra Platt
In the Empire of Genghis Khan – Stanley Stewart
Long Way Round – Ewan McGregor
Stranger on a Train – Jenny Diski
Autumn 2006
The Mermaid and the Drunks – Ben Richards
The Siege – Helen Dunmore
Spring 2007
Lost in the Forest – Sue Miller
Clay – David Almond
According to Queenie – Beryl Bainbridge
War Crimes for the Home – Liz Jensen
Watershed – Maggie Makepeace
Little Face – Sophie Hannah
The Promise of Happiness – Justin Cartwright
Summer 2007
Pompeii – Robert Harris
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
The Bullet Trick – Louise Welch
Autumn 2007
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller
Redemption – Kay Langdale
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Aiding and Abetting – Muriel Spark
Finishing School – Muriel Spark
The Ballad of Peckham Rye – Muriel Spark
The Needle in the Blood – Sarah Bower
Spring 2008
The Laments – George Hagen
In the Country of Men – Hisham Matar
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – Paul Torday
Samuel Pepys, The Unequalled Life – Claire Tomlain
Summer 2008
Be Near Me – Andrew O’Hagan
Bury Her Deep – Catriona McPherson
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss – Alan Judd
Eve Green – Susan Fletcher
Autumn 2008
Attention All Shipping – Charlie Connelly
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler
Spring 2009
Dissolution – C.J. Sansom
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brick Lane – Monica Ali
The Ice Queen – Alice Hoffman
Summer 2009
Keeping Mum – Brian Thompson
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Blood River – Tim Butcher
Engleby – Sebastian Faulks
Autumn 2009
On Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold
Journey of the Magi – T.S. Eliot
Battle Hymn of the Republic – Julia Ward Howe
The Great Lover – Jill Dawson
Runaway – Alice Munro
Spring 2010
The Road Home – Rose Tremain
The Beacon – Susan Hill
Wildwood – Roger Deakin
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
Summer 2010
Nightwatch – Sarah Waters
The Clothes on their Backs – Linda Grant
White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds
Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
The Gathering – Anne Enright
On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
Pilgrim State – Jacqueline Walker
Restless – William Boyd
Brazzaville Beach – William Boyd
Ordinary Thunderstorms – William Boyd
A Good Man in Africa – William Boyd
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Autumn 2010
Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
The Senator’s Wife – Sue Miller
Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
Spring 2011
The Outcast – Sadie Jones
Black Lands – Belinda Bauer
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
Summer 2011
The Kite Runner – Khaled Husseini
Cider with Rosie – Laurie Lee
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Autumn 2011
A Week in December – Sebastian Faulks
Works by Stella Rimington
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Trespass – Rose Tremain
Spring 2012
Room – Emma Donoghue
I Walked by Night – Liias Ryder Haggard
The Millstone – Margaret Drabble
The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim
Summer 2012
Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
The Betrayal – Helen Dunmore
Stuart, A Life Backwards – Alexander Masters
Wild Mary – Patrick Marnham
Autumn 2012
One Day – David Nicholls
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
Before I Go To Sleep – S.J. Watson
Going Postal – Terry Pratchett
Spring 2013
Oystercatchers – Susan Fletcher
Of Mutability – Jo Shapcott
The Red Queen – Phillipa Gregory
Summer 2013
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Snowdrops – A.D. Miller
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee – Rebecca Miller
The Song of Achilles – Madeleine Miller
Autumn 2013
To Kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
The World’s Wife – Carol Ann Duffy
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Spring 2014
The Help – Kathryn Stocklett
Necessary Lies – Diane Chamberlain
Crow Country – Mark Cocker
Summer 2014
Silas Marner – George Eliot
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Husseini
Lucky Bunny – Jill Dawson
The Garden Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joice
Autumn 2014
Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosee
Pure – Andrew Miller
The Tin Can Tree – Anne Tyler
Earthly Possessions – Anne Tyler
The Amateur Marriage – Anne Tyler
If Morning Ever Comes – Anne Tyler
The Clock Winder – Anne Tyler
Back When We Were – Anne Tyler
Grown Ups – Anne Tyler
Spring 2015
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
The Thread – Victoria Hislop
The Shrimp and the Anemone – L.P. Hartley
Spring-Summer 2016
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen.
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
TransAtlantic – Colum McCann
Various works – Anton Chekov.
Spring-Summer 2017
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible – Peter Pomeranstev
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
Autumn 2017
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Hag Seed – Margaret Attwood
Nutshell – Ian McEwan
A Death in the Family – Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spring 2018
No Expense Spared – Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner
Three Daughters of Eve – Elif Shafak
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Ecco
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
Summer 2018
Inside the Wave – Helen Dunmore
Human Remains – Elizabeth Haynes
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
Autumn 2018
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker
Spring 2019
Snap – Belinda Bauer
A Gentleman In Moscow – Amor Towles
Further Off The Mark – Will Stebbings
Summer 2019
Travelling to Infinity – Jane Hawking
Normal People – Sally Roony
