The Merry Book Club - Hambledon Village Web Site

The Merry Book Club meets monthly on a Thursday night at 7pm at the Merry Harriers pub. We are a friendly group and welcome any new members. Combining the book discussion with a meal, we usually have a general chat when we arrive and then eat about 7.30pm. We aim to discuss the most recent book at about 8pm and then discuss other books we are reading. We also try to choose the next few books in advance to enable members to buy, order from the library or borrow. Usually we finish about 9.30pm. There are about 20 members on the circulation list but we generally have about 6-8 people attend. It’s very relaxed and informal – more ‘a supper club that talks about books’ than your more serious book club!

We are very grateful to the Merry Harriers for ‘hosting’ the Merry Book Club and always looking after us so well.

Our next meeting is on 22nd August 2024. The book we are reviewing is ‘Perestroika in Paris’ by Jane Smiley.

If you are interested in joining, please contact Camilla Edmiston at camilla.edmiston@btinternet.com

Future books:

To be agreed

Dates of meetings in 2024:

22 August
26 September
24 October
28 November

Previous books read:

2024:

‘The Distant Echo’ by Val McDermid
‘Yellow Face’ by R F Kuang
‘Someone Else’s Shoes’ by Jojo Moyes
‘The Bookbinder of Jericho’ by Pip Williams
‘Blood Orange’ by Harriet Tyce
‘Great Circle’ by Maggie Shipstead
‘Magpie Lane’ by Lucy Atkins

2023:

‘The Devil Wears Prada’ by Lauren Weisberger
‘The Gown’ by Jennifer Robson
‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ by Harper Lee
‘Taste – My Life Through Food’ by Stanley Tucci
‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ by Pip Williams
‘Still Life’ by Val McDermid
‘Still Life’ by Sarah Winham
‘Lessons in Chemistry’ by Bonnie Garmus

2022:

‘Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People’ by Mo Molam
‘The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek’ by Kim Michele Richardson
‘The Man Who Died Twice’ by Richard Osman
‘Sorrow and Bliss’ by Meg Mason
‘American Dirt’ by Jeanine Cummins
‘Everything is Beautiful’ by Eleanor Ray
‘Moth’ by Melody Razak
‘The Long Petal of the Sea’ by Isabel Allende

2021:

The Last Letter From Your Lover’ by Jojo Moyes
‘The Foundling’ by Stacey Halls
‘The Salt Path’ by Raynor Winn
‘The Sea Gate’ by Jane Johnson
‘The Secret Barrister – Stories of the Law and how it’s Broken’ by Anon
‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ by Delia Owens
‘Longbourn’ by Jo Baker
‘Lady in Waiting’ by Anne Glenconner
‘The Thursday Murder Club’ by Richard Osman
‘Emma’ by Jane Austen

2020:

‘Between the Stops’ by Sandi Toksvig
‘Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders’ by Jane Robinson
‘Case Histories’ by Kate Atkinson
‘The Doll Factory’ by Elizabeth Macneal
‘The Lido’ by Libby Page
‘Blue Monday’ by Nikki French for March
‘Olive Kitteridge’ by Elizabeth Strout
‘Normal People’ by Sally Rooney

2019:

‘Educated’ by Tara Westover
‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama
‘Invisible Women – exposing data bias in a world designed for men’ by Caroline Criado Perez
‘Spies’ by Michael Frayn
‘The Muse’ by Jessie Burton
‘Rivers of London’ by Ben Aaronovitch
‘Northanger Abbey’ by Val McDermid

2018:

‘La Belle Sauvage: Book of Dust’ by Philip Pullman
‘Long Summer Day’ – Part 1 of A Horseman Riding By trilogy by RF Delderfield
‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ by Gail Honeyman
‘Ordinary Thunderstorms’ by William Boyd
‘Cartes Postales from Greece’ by Victoria Hislop
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr
‘The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle’ by Kirsty Wark

2017:

‘Sweet Caress’ by William Boyd
‘Dear Lupin – Letters to a Wayward Son’ by Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer for 6 September
‘The Midwitch Cuckoos’ by John Wyndham
‘Between Two Worlds – Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam’ by Zainab Salbi
‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ by Amor Towles
‘A Man Called Ove’ by Fredrik Backman
‘The Rosie Effect’ by Graeme Simsion

2016:

‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent
‘Outlander’ by Diana Gabaldon
‘Holy Cow’ by David Duchovny
‘I am Pilgrim’ by Terry Hayes
‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum’ by Katherine Boo
‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
‘Suite Francaise’ by Irene Nemirovsky

2015:

‘Pickwick Papers’ by Charles Dickens
‘The Colour of Magic’ by Terry Pratchett
‘Do No Harm’ by Henry Marsh
‘The Girl on the Train’ by Paula Hawkins
‘Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary’ by Anita Anand
‘The Glass Palace’ by Amitav Ghosh
‘Dead Simple’ by Peter James

2014:

‘Life After Life’ by Kate Atkinson
‘The Rosie Project’ by Graeme Simsion
The Luminaries’ by Eleanor Catton
‘And the Mountains Echoed’ by Khaled Hosseini
‘Laurence Olivier’ by Philip Ziegler
‘The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet’ by Jamie Ford
‘Before I go to Sleep’ by SJ Watson

2013:

‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ by Deborah Moggach
‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn
‘Daphne du Maurier’ by Margaret Forster
‘Valentine Grey’ by Sandi Toksvig
‘The Kashmir Shawl’ by Rosie Thomas
‘The Tiger’s Wife’ by Tea Obreht
‘The Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern

2012:

‘The Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared’ by Jonas Jonasson
‘Perfume’ by Patrick Suskin
‘The Greengage Summer’ by Rumer Goddan
‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier
‘The Help’ by Kathryn Stockett
‘The Earth Hums in B flat’ by Mari Strachan
‘Call the Midwife’ by Jennifer Worth

2011: