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Calendar of Meetings
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 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 April 2022 – The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
The April meeting will meet on Sunday 3 April at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is The Forty Rules of Love, by Turkish author Elif Shafak. Synopsis "A novel within a novel, The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories (The technique placing...
Cricklereaders February 2022 – Girl, Woman, Other, by
The February meeting will take place on Sunday at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows...
Cricklereaders January 2022 – American Dirt by
The January meeting will take place on Sunday 9 January at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. An incendiary novel of desperate love and pulse-quickening danger, American Dirt confronts the lawless frontier of...
Cricklereaders November 2021 – Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he...
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 April 2022 – The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
The April meeting will meet on Sunday 3 April at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is The Forty Rules of Love, by Turkish author Elif Shafak. Synopsis "A novel within a novel, The Forty Rules of Love tells two parallel stories (The technique placing...
Cricklereaders February 2022 – Girl, Woman, Other, by
The February meeting will take place on Sunday at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows...
Cricklereaders January 2022 – American Dirt by
The January meeting will take place on Sunday 9 January at the library, from 1030-1130. The book for this month is American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummings. An incendiary novel of desperate love and pulse-quickening danger, American Dirt confronts the lawless frontier of...
Cricklereaders November 2021 – Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
This month Cricklereaders will be enjoying Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he...
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Meeting Calendar
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