Elizabeth Baines

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...

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...

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 ...

Some time ago we read Richard Ford's The Sportswriter and I was surprised to find it, along with most of our group, fairly tedious and ...

This very short Argentinian novel, suggested by Doug, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. We were all immediately attrac...

Clare suggested this 2024 Booker winner, and we were all very interested to read it for its unusual and extremely topical subject matter. Se...

The recent death of Edna O'Brien prompted Ann to suggest this, O'Brien's first novel - and the first in a trilogy of novels abou...

This book was the departing suggestion of Mark, who has been a member of the group since its inception twenty-two years ago but has now left...

Spoiler warning (for those who don't yet know the plot of this very famous book). One day I caught a snippet of a Radio 4 programme in w...

Clare suggested this translation by Jo Heinrich of a short, episodic and autobiographical German novel set in the east Berlin suburb of Marz...

Only four of us to discuss this book suggested by Doug (who couldn't be present), and all four of us found it a worthwhile, if not gripp...