Meetings

Onchan Book Group Meetings 2016

We meet in Onchan Library on the first Thursday 

of each month at 6 p.m

Thurs 2nd Feb     Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx and /or a                                      novella of your own choice by Susan Hill

Thurs 3rd Mar      The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Thurs 7th Apr      Skeleton Road by Val McDermid

Thurs 5th May      A Manx Book of your own choice

Thurs 2nd June     The Trouble With Goats And Sheep by Joanna Cannon


Onchan Book Group Meetings 2015

Thurs 8th Jan       The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton & Gone Girl 
                             by Gillian Flynn

Thurs 12th Feb     A Book of your own choice with 'Heart' in the title

Thurs 5th Mar      A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray

Thurs 2nd Apr      H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

Thurs 1st May     Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey 

Thurs 4th Jun       A Travel Book of your own choice 


Thurs 2nd Jul       The Sudden Departure of the Frasers by Louise Candlish 

Thurs 6th Aug      Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes 

Thurs 3rd Sep

Thurs 3rd Oct

Thurs 5th Nov      The Light Between The Oceans by M L Steadman

                              A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman


Onchan Book Group Meetings 2014

Thurs 2nd Jan       A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

Thurs 6th Feb       Death Comes To Pemberley by P D James

Thurs 6th Mar      Book of your own choice by John Steinbeck

Thurs 3rd Apr      Children's classic read of your own choice

Thurs 1st May      Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier 

Thurs 5th Jun       The Humans by Matt Haig 

Thurs 3rd Jul        Longbourn by Jo Baker or book of your own choice 
                           On the theme of Life Above or Below Stairs

Thurs 7th Aug      The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Thurs 4th Sep      Stoner by John Williams

Thurs 2nd Oct     Science Fiction novel of your own choice

Thurs 6th Nov     A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Thurs 11th Dec   'The Body In the Library' Book Group Murder Mystery




Onchan Book Group Meetings 2013

Thurs 3rd Jan        Guilty Pleasures

Thurs 7th Feb        Jane Austen of your own choice

Thurs 7th Mar       A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Thurs 4th Apr        The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Thurs 2nd May      Book of your own choice that has been screened

Thurs 6th Jun         The Hundred-Year-Old-Man Who Jumped Out
                                Of The Window & Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Thurs 4th Jul         The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Thurs 3rd Aug       Book of your own choice by Andrew Taylor

Thurs 5th Sep       Wool by Hugh Howey 

Thurs 3rd Oct       The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Thurs 7th Nov       Mood Boosting Book of your own choice. 
                             Select from the list, or suggest your own 

Thurs 5th Dec       Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy


Onchan Book Group Meetings 2012        

Thurs 5th Jan          A Christmas Carol by Dickens

Thurs 3rd Feb         One Day by David Nicholls

Thurs 1st Mar         Graham Greene (own choice)

Thurs 5th Apr         The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Thurs 3rd May        Jasper Fforde (own choice)

Thurs 7th June        R J Ellroy (own choice)    

Thurs 5th July         Tynwald Bank Holiday

Thurs 2nd Aug       Unlikely Pilgrimage of Howard Fry by Rachel Joyce
                             Before I go to Sleep by S J Watson

Thurs 6th Sep         State of Wonder by Anne Patchett

Thurs 4th Oct         Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
                             Spies by Michael Frayn

Thurs 1st Nov         Book of own choice on war or conflict

Thurs 6th Dec        The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien