Book Groups
Reading groups are a great way to discover new books and authors. Get together with like-minded people in a relaxed and comfortable setting and exchange ideas over a cuppa. Research conducted by the Reading Agency shows that belonging to a reading group helps people relax, combats isolation, improves self-esteem and social interaction and evokes well-being as well as being great fun.
Inverclyde Libraries normally runs four Book Groups, which meet at Central, Gourock and Port Glasgow libraries:
· Tea Time Book Group, 2nd Monday of the month, 5pm-6.30pm, Central library.
· Central Bookchat, 3rd Wednesday of the month, 10.00am-11.00am, Central library.
· Gourock Bookchat, last Thursday of the month, 1pm-3pm, Gourock library.
· Port Glasgow Bookchat, first Thursday of the month, 11am-12noon, Port Glasgow library.
Our Book Group collection of multiple copy fiction and non-fiction titles is available to view as an attachment on this page (see Documents). There are between 6 and 12 copies per set and some titles are also available in eBook, eAudio, large print or audio book format.
Our Book Group Collection is regularly reviewed and updated with input from book group members.
All our groups are free to join so if you would like to come along to one of our groups, or start a reading group in your area, contact Central Library on 01475 712323 or email library.central@inverclyde.gov.uk
Book Group Collections - November 2023
|
Author |
Title |
Published |
Genre |
|
Ahern, Cecelia |
The Book of Tomorrow |
2009 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Ahern, Cecelia |
Lyrebird |
2016 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Alexander, VS |
Magdalen Girls |
2016 |
Historical fiction |
|
Anderson, Celia |
59 Memory Lane |
2019 |
Contemporary romance |
|
Archer, Jeffrey |
Heads you win |
2018 |
Thriller |
|
Atwood, Margaret |
The testaments |
2019 |
Literary fiction |
|
Backman, Fredrik |
The scandal (aka Beartown) |
2017 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Barnett, David M. |
Calling Major Tom |
2017 |
Humorous fiction |
|
Bennett, S. J. |
The Windsor knot |
2020 |
Crime fiction |
|
Brookner, Anita |
Strangers |
2009 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Burnet, Graeme Macrae |
His bloody project |
2015 |
Thriller |
|
Butland, Stephanie |
Lost for words |
2017 |
Contemporary romance |
|
Byatt, A. S. |
The children’s book |
2009 |
Historical fiction |
|
Cannon, Joanna |
Breaking and mending |
2019 |
Medical biography |
|
Chandler, Raymond |
The big sleep |
2011 |
Crime fiction |
|
Cleeves, Ann |
The long call |
2019 |
Crime fiction |
|
Cole, Martina |
Dangerous Lady |
2017 |
Thriller |
|
Connelly, Michael |
The Lincoln Lawyer |
2005 |
Thriller |
|
Daly, Paula |
The mistake I made |
2015 |
Psychological thriller |
|
Donoghue, Emma |
Room |
2010 |
Psychological fiction |
|
Douglas, Louise |
The secret by the lake |
2015 |
Contemporary romance |
|
Egan, Jennifer |
A visit from the Goon Squad |
2010 |
Psychological fiction |
|
French, Nicci |
Secret smile |
2008 |
Mystery |
|
Gayle, Mike |
Half a world away |
2019 |
Literary fiction |
|
Genova, Lisa |
Still Alice |
2009 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Glen, Joanna |
The other half of Augusta Hope |
2019 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Griffiths, Elly |
The stranger diaries |
2019 |
Crime fiction |
|
Gyasi,Yaa |
Homegoing |
2016 |
Historical fiction |
|
Haig, Matt |
The midnight library |
2020 |
General fiction |
|
Hargrave, Kiran |
The dance tree |
2022 |
Historical fiction |
|
Harper, Elodie |
The binding song |
2017 |
Horror |
|
Hashimi, Nadia |
The pearl that broke its shell |
2014 |
Women’s fiction |
|
Hawkins, Paula |
The Girl on the train |
2015 |
Thriller |
|
Hayder, Mo |
Gone |
2010 |
Crime fiction |
|
Hemingway, Ernest |
The old man and the sea |
1952 |
Classic |
|
Hillenbrand, Laura |
Unbroken: an extraordinary true story of courage and survival |
2012 |
Historical biography (Non-fiction) |
|
Hogan, Ruth |
The keeper of lost things |
2017 |
Women’s fiction |
|
Hogan, Ruth |
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel |
2019 |
Women’s fiction |
|
Hogan, Ruth |
The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes |
2018 |
Women’s fiction |
|
Holmes, A.M. |
May we be Forgiven |
2012 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Hornby, Nick |
Juliet Naked |
2009 |
Humorous fiction |
|
Hunter, Georgia |
We were the lucky ones |
2017 |
Biographical fiction |
|
Irving, John |
Avenue of mysteries |
2015 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
James, Erica |
The Queen of New Beginnings |
2010 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Johns, Ana |
The woman in the white kimono |
2019 |
Historical fiction |
|
Joyce, Rachel |
The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
2012 |
Humorous fiction |
|
Kay, Adam |
This is going to hurt: secret diaries of a junior doctor |
2017 |
Medical biography, Humorous (Non-fiction) |
|
Kennedy, Douglas |
Leaving the World |
2009 |
Thriller |
|
Kent, Kathleen |
The Heretic’s Daughter |
2009 |
Historical fiction |
|
Keyes, Marian |
The Brightest Star in the Sky |
2009 |
Romance, Humorous |
|
Kinsley, Erin |
Found |
2019 |
Thriller |
|
Land, Ali |
Good me, bad me |
2017 |
Thriller |
|
Lee, Harper |
Go Set a Watchman |
2015 |
Historical fiction |
|
Lefteri, Christy |
The beekeeper of Aleppo |
2020 |
General fiction |
|
Levy, Andrea |
The Long Song |
2010 |
Historical fiction |
|
Lewycka, Marina |
We are all made of Glue |
2009 |
Humorous fiction |
|
McGilvray, Marion |
A Lost Wife’s Tale |
2009 |
Romance |
|
McGregor, Jon |
Even the Dogs |
2011 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
McMahon, Katharine |
The Rose of Sebastopol |
2007 |
Historical fiction |
|
Massie, Allan |
Surviving |
2009 |
Literary fiction |
|
Michaelides, Alex |
The silent patient |
2019 |
Psychological fiction |
|
Mina, Denise |
The long drop |
2017 |
Crime fiction |
|
Morris, Heather |
The tattooist of Auschwitz |
2018 |
Historical fiction |
|
Mosse, Kate |
The Winter Ghosts |
2010 |
Historical fiction, Horror |
|
Moyes, Jojo |
The giver of stars |
2019 |
Romance |
|
Myerson, Julie |
The stopped heart |
2016 |
Psychological thriller |
|
Nemirovsky, Irene |
Suite Francaise |
2014 |
Historical fiction |
|
Ng, Celeste |
Everything I never told you |
2014 |
Literary fiction |
|
Ng, Celeste |
Little fires everywhere |
2018 |
Literary fiction |
|
Nicholls, David |
Us |
2014 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Niffenegger, Audrey |
Her fearful symmetry |
2009 |
Horror |
|
Nugent, Liz |
Lying in wait |
2017 |
Thriller |
|
O’Farrell, Maggie
|
I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death |
2018 |
Biography |
|
O’Farrell, Maggie |
The marriage portrait |
2022 |
Historical fiction |
|
Osman, Richard |
The bullet that missed |
2022 |
Crime fiction |
|
Osman, Richard |
The last devil to die |
2023 |
Crime fiction |
|
Osman, Richard |
The man who died twice |
2021 |
Crime fiction |
|
Osman, Richard |
The Thursday murder club |
2020 |
Crime fiction |
|
Owens, Agnes |
The Complete Novellas |
2009 |
Short stories |
|
Owens, Delia |
Where the crawdads sing |
2019 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Paris, B.A |
Behind closed doors |
2016 |
Crime fiction |
|
Parkin, Gaile |
Baking Cakes in Kigali |
2009 |
Romance |
|
Parry, Ambrose |
The way of all flesh |
2018 |
Crime fiction |
|
Pearce, A J |
Dear Mrs Bird |
2018 |
Historical fiction |
|
Picoult, Jodi |
House Rules |
2010 |
General fiction (autism) |
|
Quick, Matthew |
The Silver Linings Play Book |
2010 |
Literary fiction |
|
Rankin, Ian |
In a house of lies |
2018 |
Crime fiction |
|
Robotham, Mandy |
A woman of war |
2019 |
Historical fiction |
|
Rooney, Sally |
Normal people |
2018 |
Contemporary romance |
|
Salinger, J.D. |
The catcher in the rye |
2010 |
Classic |
|
Saunders, George |
Lincoln in the Bardo |
2017 |
Historical fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The comforters (220 pages) |
2017 (1954) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The Abbess of Crewe (108 pages) |
2018 (1974) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Aiding and abetting (132 pages) |
2018 (2000) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The bachelors (236 pages) |
2018 (1960) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The ballad of Peckham Rye (140 pages) |
2017 (1960) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The driver's seat (89 pages) |
2018 (1970) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
A far cry from Kensington (179 pages) |
2017 (1988) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The finishing school (117 pages) |
2018 (2004) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The girls of slender means (117 pages) |
2018 (1963) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The hothouse by the east river (136 pages) |
2018 (1973) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The Mandelbaum Gate (376 pages) |
2018 (1965) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Memento mori |
2017 (1959) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Not to disturb |
2018 (1971) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The only problem |
2018 (1984) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
2018 (1961) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The public image |
2018 (1968) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Reality and dreams |
2018 (1996) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Robinson |
2017 (1958) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Symposium |
2018 (1990) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
The takeover |
2018 (1976) |
General fiction |
|
Spark, Muriel |
Territorial rights |
2018 (1979) |
General fiction |
|
Sparks, Nicholas |
The Last Song |
2009 |
Contemporary romance |
|
Stedman, M.L. |
The Light Between Oceans |
2013 |
Historical fiction, Literary fiction |
|
Stuart, Douglas |
Shuggie Bain |
2020 |
General fiction |
|
Tearne, Roma |
Brixton Beach |
2009 |
Literary fiction |
|
Thom, Eleanor |
The Tin-Kin |
2009 |
Literary fiction |
|
Trevor, William |
Love and Summer |
2009 |
Contemporary romance |
|
Turton, Stuart |
The devil and the dark water |
2020 |
Thriller |
|
Tyler, Anne |
Noah’s Compass |
2009 |
Contemporary fiction |
|
Verghese, Abraham |
Cutting for Stone |
2009 |
Saga |
|
Ward, Katie |
Girl Reading |
2012 |
Literary fiction |
|
Wynd, Oswald |
The Ginger Tree |
2002 |
Saga |
|
Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief |
2008 |
Historical fiction |
*Please Note: All titles are subject to availability at the time of request. Some titles are also available in eBook, eAudio, large print, or audio book format.