Elizabeth Baines

How to be a writer without ending up sozzled, behind bars or insane

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Reading Group: Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou

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Warning: Plot spoil Margeret's latest suggestion was this widely acclaimed and International Booker long-listed book set in the People...
Monday, February 02, 2026

Reading group: Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

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This book which has sold millions of copies worldwide was suggested by John as, I think, something of a provocation, since our group is deep...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Reading group: Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut.

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I suggested this novel which takes the form of the confession of Howard W Campbell Jr, who is awaiting trial in an Israeli prison after the ...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Reading group: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

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Doug suggested this lively and linguistically inventive novel set in late nineteenth-century Montana and featuring two reprobate but disarmi...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Reading group: By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano

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Clare suggested this novella narrated by Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who has also been a literary critic and poet. It is a d...
Monday, September 08, 2025

Reading group: The Trees by Percival Everett

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This is going to be a short post, as I don't want to plot spoil.  Ann had recently read this genre-defying book and had been unable to p...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Reading group: The Waves by Virginia Woolf

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This was the one book by Virginia Woolf that Margeret, who loved her work, had not read. Introducing it to the group, she joked that having ...
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