Schedule

17th December 2018 – Burmese Days by George Orwell (Derek)

19th November 2018 – The Human Stain by Philip Roth (Mike E)

15th October 2018 – Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles (Mary)

17th September 2018 – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Russell)

20th August 2018 – Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (?)

16 July 2018 – Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe (?)

18 June 2018 – Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (?)

21 May 2018 – Mr Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow (?)

16 April 2018 – Half A Life by V.S. Naipaul (?)

19 March 2018 – The Bull From the Sea – Renault (?)

19 February 2018 – Another Country – Baldwin (?)

15 January 2018 – The Pledge – Durrunmatt (?)

18th December 2017 – Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers (?)

20th November 2017 – Rabbit Run by John Updike (?)

16th October 2017 – The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (?)

18th September 2017 – All the Tea in China by Kyril Bonfiglioli (?)

21st August 2017 – The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (?)

17th July 2017 – Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (John D)

19th June 2017 – Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi (Mary M)

15th May 2017 – Vernon Godlittle by D.B.C Pierre (Mike E)

17th April 2017 – Arab Jazz by Karim Miské (Mike N)

20th March 2017 – Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart (Tad)

20th February 2017 – Bring along a Bob Dylan lyric to discuss (All)

9th January 2017 – The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse (Russell)

12th December 2016 – The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers (Proposed by ?)

17th October 2016 – Song of Solomon (Proposed by ?)

19th September 2016 – Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (Proposed by ?)

15th August 2016 – Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (Mike N)

18th July 2016 – Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh (Derek)

20th June 2016 – All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (Proposed by ?)

16th May 2016 – Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Russell)

18th April 2016 – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (Proposed by ?)

21st March 2016 – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (Proposed by ?)

15th February 2016 – Capital by John Lanchester (Mike N)

18th January 2016 – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Glyn)

21st December 2015 – Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (Bridget)

16th November 2015 – Immortality by Milan Kundera (Proposed by ?)

19th October 2015 – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Dulcie)

21st September 2015 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (Russell)

17th August 2015 – When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom (Karina)

20th July 2015 – History of the Seige of Lisbon by Jose Saramago (Mary M)

15th June 2015 – A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (Proposed by ?)

18th May 2015 – The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories by Various (Bridget)

20th April 2015 – Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell (Derek)

16th March 2015 – Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (Mike N)

16th February 2015 – Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov (Jim)

19th January 2015 – Voss by Patrick White (Glynn)

1st December 2014 – Herzog by Saul Bellow (Russell)

17th November 2014 – The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Proposed by ?)

20th October 2014 – The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald (John D)

15th September 2014 – Island by Aldous Huxley (Pauline)

18th August 2014 – Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Proposed by ?)

21st July 2014 – Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (Bridget)

16th June 2014 – Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Derek)

19th May 2014 – The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer (Dulcie)

21st April 2014 – The Book Of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow (Mike E)

17th March 2014 – A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce (Russell)

17th February 2014 – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Jim)

20th January 2014 – The Fall by Albert Camus (John D)

16th December 2013 – The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Pauline)

18th November 2013 – Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (Bridget)

21st October 2013 – Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy (Monica)

16th September 2013 – The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien (Tad)

19th August 2013 – No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Sheila)

15th July 2013 – Saturday Night And Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (Phil N)

17th June 2013 – The Blood of Others by Simone De Beauvoir (Russell)

20th May 2013 – Wild Palms by William Faulkner (Mike N)

15th April 2013 – Skagboys by Irvine Welsh (Derek)

18th March 2013 – To Have And Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (Phil N)

18th February 2013 – The Colour Purple by Alice Walker (Joe)

21st January 2013 – Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Sheila)

17th December 2012 – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell (Jayne)

19th November 2012 – Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (Jim)

15th October 2012 – Flight patterns by Alan Mahar (Phil N)

17th September 2012 – The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Russell)

20th August 2012 – Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

16th July 2012 – The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy (Mike E)

18th June 2012 – Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Sheila)

21st May 2012 – Chrome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (Pauline)

16th April 2012 – Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Russell)

19th march 2012 – Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (Jim)

20th February 2012 – The postman Always Rings Twice by John M. Cain (Mike N)

16th January 2012 – The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Russell)

19th December 2011 – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Proposed by ?)

21st November 2011 – Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (Russell)

17th October 2011 – A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Paul D)

19th September 2011 – Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (Paul)

10th August 2011 – PIPs Symposium – Extracts from the novel ‘Thinks’ by David Lodge

18th July 2011 – The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (Mike E)

20th June 2011 – The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (John D)

16th May 2011 – Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Russell)

18th April 2011 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Laura)

21st March 2011 – Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (Simon)

21st February 2011 – Disgrace by J M Coetzee (Mike N)

17th January 2011 – The Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller (Jim)

13th December 2010 – Bring Along a Short Story/Poem (Proposed by ?)

15th November 2010 – The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russell)

18th October 2010 – No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West (John L)

20th September 2010 – The Citadel by A. J. Cronin (Claire)

16th August 2010 – A Short Story to Discuss by Tobias Wolff (Jim)

4th August 2010 (PIPs Symposium Event) – Liar! by Isaac Asimov (in ‘I, Robot’ Collection)

19th July 2010 – Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes (Julie)

21st June 2010 – Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (Steve B)

17th May 2010 – The Immoralist by Andre Gide (Russell)

19th April 2010 – The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Tina)

15th March 2010 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Mike E)

15th February 2010 – The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (Lucas)

18th January 2010 – The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot (Jim)

21st December 2009 – The Collector by John Fowles (Claire)

16th November 2009 – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russell)

19th October 2009 – Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing (John L)

15th October 2009 (The Bluecoat Centre 1pm) – Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (All)

21st September 2009 – American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Mike E)

17th August 2009 – Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Russell)

20th July 2009 – The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (Jim)

15th June 2009 – Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (Kevin)

18th May 2009 – Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (Steve B)

20th April 2009 – Othello by William Shakespeare (Kathy)

16th March 2009 – Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Claire)

16th February 2009 – Open Poetry Forum (All)

19th January 2009 – Ulysses (Episode 12: Cyclops) by James Joyce (Russell)

15th December 2008 – King Lear by William Shakespeare (Russell)

17th November 2008 – Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland (Jim)

20th October 2008 – Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Mike E)

13th October 2008 – Is there a book that changed your life? at The Bluecoat (4 – 6pm)

15th September 2008 – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (Geraldine)

18th August 2008 – A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (Claire)

21st July 2008 – Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Russell)

16th June 2008 – Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Patton (Jim)

19th May 2008 – Jekyll & Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Geraldine)

21st April 2008 – Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Angela)

19th March 2008 – Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Rob)

5th March 2008? – Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes (Phil Smith)

20th February 2008? – Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (Derek)

16th January 2008? – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Mike E)

December 2007 – Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Geraldine)

November 2007? – One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (Angela)

October 2007? – Beloved by Toni Morrison (Jim)

September 2007? – Atomised by Michel Houellebecq (Russell)

September 2007? – The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (Mike N)

August 2007? – We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Angela)

July 2007 – The Virgin and the Gypsy by D.H. Lawrence (Geraldine)

June 2007? – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (Rob)

May 2007? – Hunger by Knut Hamsun (Mike N)

April 2007? – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Pat H)

March 2007? – The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Jim)

February 2007? – The Outsider by Albert Camus (Russell)

January 2007? – The Dead by James Joyce (Jim)

 

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