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Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont
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A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. This Book Club was started under the influence of wine in 2004.
Book for April
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
Book for January
A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont
Books Read 2
- 156 Beyond Brilliant by Dipna Anand (Emma June 2021)
- 157 The Promise by Damon Galgut (Cindy Aug 2021)
- 158 Bolder by Carl Honore (Jane July 2021)
- 159 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Olivia oct)
- 160 Mrs Palfry at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (Mandy Dec)
- 161 The Pale Abyssnian by Miles Bresling (Rowena Jan 2022)
- 162 Kara and the Sun by Kazu Ishiguro (Carolyn March 2022)
- 163 Fear and Loathing in LA by Hunter J Thompson (Mandy April 2022)
- 164 The Pomegranate Tree by Vanessa Altin (Emma May 2022)
- 165 Michel the Giant: an African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie (Cindy Aug 2022)
- 166 The Dutch House by Ann Pratchett (Sept 2022)
- 167 Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt (Nov/Dec Mandy)
- 168 East West Street by Phillip Sands (Feb/Mar Rowena)
- 169 A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland (Emma Mar 2023)
- 170 How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil (Naila May)
- 171 Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Carolyn July)
- 172 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Mandy Sept)
- 173 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Rowena Oct)
- 174 A Sting in the Tale by David Goulson (Olivia Nov)
- 175 A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont (Emma Jan 24)
- 176 I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Naila March 24)
Books Read 1
- 155 Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Carolyn) from this point onward due to Blogger changing formating new books will be found on Books Read 2 (June 2021)
- 154 Cheri by Collette (Chrissie)
- 153 An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel (Mandy)
- 152 Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (?)
- 151 The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris (Jan 2021 Rowena)
- 150 Ok, Let's do your stupid idea by Patrick Freyne (Olivia)
- Frieda by Annabel Abs (Oct Emma)
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rys (Carolyn)
- The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (?)
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (Rowena) 149
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernandine Everisto (Cindy)
- Three Women by Lisa Thaddeo (Jackie)
- Master and Maragrita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Olivia)
- Olive Ketteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Cindy)
- Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner (Jackie)
- If on a Winter's Night by Italo Calvino (Carolyn)
- Persuasion by Jane Austen (Rowena)
- Machines Like Us by Ian McEwan (Mandy)
- Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Jackie)
- Self Made Man by Norah Vincent (Moira)
- Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Cindy)
- Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn (Carolyn)
- A Gentleman of Moscow by Amor Towles (Rowena)
- Unless by Carol Sheilds (Pauline)
- Villette by Charlotte Bronte (Jackie) 134
- Dietland by Sarai Walker
- The Paris Wife by Pauline McLain (Carolyn)
- Daughters of the Dragon by William Andrews (Rowena)
- Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
- Black Water by Louise Doughty (Chrissie Mar 2018) 129
- I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing (Olivia))
- Berlin Poplars by Anne Ragde (Carolyn)
- The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere (Cindy)
- Strumpet City James Plunkett (Olivia)
- The Power by Naomi Alderman (Rowena)
- A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine by Marina Lewycka (Moira)
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Moira)
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Jackie)
- Rabbit by John Updike (Cindy)
- A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous (Carolyn)
- Dissolution by CJ Samson (Olivia)
- The Chevalier by Mike Hobbs (Rowena)
- My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante (Rowena)
- The Secret Scriptures by Sebastian Barry (Jackie)
- Fat Chance by Simon Gray (Moira)
- Old Filth by Jane Gardam (Pauline)
- The Door by Magda Szabo (Cindy)
- Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury (Mandy)
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Olivia)
- How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (Rowena)
- The Rosie Project Don Tillman 1 by Graeme Simsion (Pam)
- Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge (Moira)
- The Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (Jackie)
- Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim (Mandy F)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
- Wonder by RJ Palacio (Olivia)
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Rowena)
- Germania by Simon Winder (Carolyn)
- 100. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer (Pam) our 100th book!
- The Last Telegram by Liz Trenow (Rowena)
- The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony (Jackie)
- The Grand Banks Cafe by George Simenon (Cindy)
- Her Brilliant Career by Rachel Cooke (Amanda)
- Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
- Smut by Alan Bennett (Mandy)
- An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (Olivia)
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Nothing to Envy - Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Simone)
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Cindy)
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenies
- Eleven Minutes by Paul Coelho
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
- Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks (Rowena)
- The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker (Chrissie)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Rowena)
- Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maughan (Mandy)
- The Coroner's Lunch Colin Cotterill (Amanda)
- High Tea in Mosul by Lynne O'Donnell
- Ask the Dust by John Fante
- The Woman in Silk by Reg Gadney
- Before I go to Sleep by S J Watson (Rona)
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (Rowena)
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
- The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
- The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Kiddnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- One Day by David Nicholls
- The Road by Cormac MacCarthy
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- More Than Just Conincidence by Julie Wassmer
- Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Rowena)
- Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
- A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemoroski
- The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
- Ghost by Robert Harris
- About the Author by John Colapinto (Mandy)
- Property by Valerie Martin (Rowena)
- Somebody at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple (Amanda)
- Toast by Nigel Slater (Cindy)
- The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- 50. Midaq Alley by Naquib Mahfouz
- The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
- The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross (Nikki)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Seige of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (Cindy)
- A Spy in the House of Love by Anis Nin (Chrissie)
- The Code of Woosters by PG Wodehouse
- The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula le Guin (Amanda)
- Solar Lottery by Philip K Dick (Rowena)
- The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin (Giles)
- Paradise Overdose by Brian Antoni (Nikki)
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks (Chrissie)
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Rona)
- Regeneration by Pat Barker (Rowena)
- Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
- Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard (Nikki)
- The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling (Rowena)
- Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (Amanda)
- Shadow of the Wind by Carloz Ruiz Zafon
- Many Masters, Many Lives by Dr Brian Wiess (Nikki)
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Rowena)
- Apples by Richard Milward (Chrissie)
- Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Rowen)
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks
- 'No, I don't want to join a book club' by Virginia Ironside
- Therapy by David Lodge (Carolyn)
- The Great Gatsby by Scott F FitzGerald
- Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton (Chrissie)
- The Bell Jar by Sylivia Plath (Mandy)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Cindy)
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Rowena)
- The Siege by Helen Dunmore (Jackie)
- Spunik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- Our Spoons came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns (Amanda)
- On Green Dolphin St by Sebastian Faulks
- Immaculate Deception by Reg Gadney (Mandy)
- The Seige by Helen Dunmore (Jackie)
- The Love of Stones by Oliver Tobias (Rowena)
- The Airmen who wouldn't Die by John G Fuller (Peter)
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Rowena)
- Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov (Katie)
- The Ginger Man by JD Donleavy (Chrissie)
- Britain 1945 by Maureen Waller (Giles)
- Lady Chattersley's Lover by TH Lawrence (Mandy)
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (Amanda)
- June 2021 Change of order
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Parmesan and Pistachio Nutters
100g 4oz soft butter
50g 2oz semolina
85g 3.5oz self raising flour
75g 3oz grated parmesan
pinch of dry mustard
s & p
40 pistachio
Put all ingredients except nuts into a food processor. Whizz. Roll dough into 40 small balls and push onto baking sheet, roughly thick £1 coin size with a pistachio nut in the centre. Bake in preheated oven (180C) for 15 - 20 mins unitl pale golden brown. Watch. Take out and serve when cool.
50g 2oz semolina
85g 3.5oz self raising flour
75g 3oz grated parmesan
pinch of dry mustard
s & p
40 pistachio
Put all ingredients except nuts into a food processor. Whizz. Roll dough into 40 small balls and push onto baking sheet, roughly thick £1 coin size with a pistachio nut in the centre. Bake in preheated oven (180C) for 15 - 20 mins unitl pale golden brown. Watch. Take out and serve when cool.
Recipe for Carolyn's Canapes
Ingredients:
375 gm ready-made puff pastry
200 gm grated parmesan cheese
1 egg
pinch cayenne pepper and tablespoon of fresh finely chopped thyme.
Roll out pastry to approx 1/2cm thick, brush with beaten egg, then scatter with 75 gm of parmesan, thyme and cayenne pepper.
Fold pastry in half, press at the edges to seal, roll out flat again and repeat with another 75gms of parmesan.
Fold as before and roll out again till 1.5cm thick and chill in fridge.
Heat oven to 200C. Line baking tray with greaseproof paper.
Take pastry out of fridge and brush with egg again, scatter with sea salt and more parmesan. Cut pastry into long strips about 1cm wide. Place each strip on baking tray, bake for 8-9mins.
So simple even a Man could do it?!
200gm
375 gm ready-made puff pastry
200 gm grated parmesan cheese
1 egg
pinch cayenne pepper and tablespoon of fresh finely chopped thyme.
Roll out pastry to approx 1/2cm thick, brush with beaten egg, then scatter with 75 gm of parmesan, thyme and cayenne pepper.
Fold pastry in half, press at the edges to seal, roll out flat again and repeat with another 75gms of parmesan.
Fold as before and roll out again till 1.5cm thick and chill in fridge.
Heat oven to 200C. Line baking tray with greaseproof paper.
Take pastry out of fridge and brush with egg again, scatter with sea salt and more parmesan. Cut pastry into long strips about 1cm wide. Place each strip on baking tray, bake for 8-9mins.
So simple even a Man could do it?!
200gm
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