Books we've enjoyed
Have a look at what our reading groups recommend and then check our book reviews pages to see if other people liked the books. If a book sounds interesting, visit our online library catalogue to check whether it's in stock.
Recommended reads from B&B reading group July 2010
Troubles by J G Farrell
What Alice Forgot by Liane Morarity
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
Recommended reads from B&B reading group September 2009
I Predict a Riot by Colin Bateman
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Recommended reads from B&B reading group August 2009
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Killing God by Kevin Brooks
Four Bare Legs in a Bed by Helen Simpson
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
Recommended reads from B&B reading group May 2009
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Recommended reads from B&B reading group April 2009
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Recommended reads from B&B reading group March 2009
Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern
Lottery by Patricia Wood
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx
Recommended reads from B&B reading group February 2009
The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland
Coming up for Air by George Orwell
Recommended reads from B&B reading group January 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Editor's Wife by Clare Chambers
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Recommended reads from B&B reading group November 2008
After River by Donna Milner
The Buddha, Geoff and Me by Edward Canfor-Dumas
Whit by Iain Banks
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I Predict a Riot by Colin Bateman
Recommended reads from B&B reading group September 2008
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard
Recommended reads from B&B reading group August 2008
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The Return by Victoria Hislop
Recommended reads from B&B reading group July 2008
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
What was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Recommended reads from B&B reading group June 2008
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
The Song before it is Sung by Justin Cartwright
The Language of Others by Clare Morrall
White Nights by Anne Cleeves
Recommended reads from B&B reading group May 2008
Slam by Nick Hornby
The Servants by M M Smith
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Redemption Fall by Joseph O'Connor
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
The Intruders by Michael Marshall
Recommended reads from B&B reading group April 2008
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
All that Glitters by Pearl Lowe
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Recommended reads from B&B reading group March 2008
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
Notes on an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Blood River by Tim Butcher
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Recommended Reads from B&B reading group February 2008
Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
Going Under by Ray French
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katherine McMahon
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
