High Ham Book Group had its first gathering late 2014. We meet about every 6 weeks to discuss a book chosen by one of the group. We meet informally at 2pm at someone’s house where drinks are served and discussion begins. The host chooses the next book – mainly fiction covering a wide range of genres, and occasionally non-fiction and poetry. We always find time to talk about current news, both UK/local and international. Please email Anne Bond if you are interested in joining the group.
April ’25 book choice: The Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
Books Read so Far:
North Woods – Daniel Mason
Spies – Michael Frayne Butter – Alamo Yuzuki
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales – Thomas Hardy
Lake Woebegone – Garrison Keillor Darling – Rachel Edwards
Blackwood – Michael Farris Smith If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
The Echo Chamber – John Boyne Trust – Hernan Diaz
Things I Don’t want to Know – Deborah Levy Three Sisters – Heather Morris
London Under – Peter Ackroyd House on the Strand – Daphne du Maurier
Giver of the Stars – Jo Jo Moyes Things Like These – Claire Keegan
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor The Overstory – Richard Powers
Cassandra at the Wedding – Dorothy Baker Every Man For Himself – Beryl Bainbridge
The Bond of Green Withy – Bertha Lawrence Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
Good Morning Midnight – Jean Rhys Pure – Andrew Miller
Howards End is on the Landing – Susan Hill Miss Garnett’s Angel – Sally Vickers
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome The Architect’s Apprentice – Elif Shafa
O Pioneers! – Will Cather The Painted Veil -Somerset Maugham
American Dirt – Jeannine Cummins Piranesi – Susannah Clarke
Hungry – Grace Dent Mum and Dad – Joanna Trollope
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Schaffer, Annie Barrows
Reading in Bed – Sue Gee The Franchise Affair – Josephine Tey
My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You – Louisa Young Entangled Life – Martin Sheldrake
The Old Mand and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
Hello Mum – Bernadine Evaristo Midnight Sun – Jo Nesbo
West – Carys Davies Beloved – Toni Morrison
Now we Shall be Entirely Free – Andrew Miller Miss Oliphant is Perfectly Fine – Gail Honeyman
Daphne – Justine Picardie Summer’s Lease – John Mortimer
Slow Horses – Mick Herron Uncommon Types – Tom Hanks
Wool – Hugh Howey An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
The Running Hare – John Lewis Stempel Punishment – Anne Holt
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
Six Weeks – John Lewis-Stempel Regeneration – Pat Barker
The Little Paris’s Bookshop – Nina George The Wife – Meg Wolitzer
The Hare With the Amber Eyes – Edmund de Wall Resevoir 13 – Jon McGregor
Blood and Beauty – Sarah Dunant Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Star of the Sea – Joseph O’Conner No Great Mischief – Alistair MacLeod
Sebastian Barry – On Canaan’s Side Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Light years
Kate Atkinson – Life After Life Pat Barker – Blow Your House Down
Michael Faber – The Book of Strange New Things Katzuo Ishiguro – The Buried Giant
Patrick Gale – Notes on an Exhibition Elena Ferrante – My Brilliant Friend
Jo Jo Moyes – Me Before You Tove Jannson – The True Deceiver/ The Summer Book
Alexander Eden – The Proof of Heaven Ian McEwan – Sweet Tooth
Alison Weir – Katherine Swynford Diane Setterfield – The 13th Tale
John Williams – Stoner Chris Cleave – The Other Hand
Andrew Marr – Head of State James Runcie – The Colour of Heaven
Markus Zusak – The Book Thief Robert Harris – An Officer and a Spy
Deborah Levy – Hot Milk Robert James Walker – The Bridges of Madison County
Simon Armitage – Walking Home Tan Twan Eng – The Garden of Evening Mists
BBC Books – The Nation’s Favourite Poems Bruce Chatwin – On the Black Hill
Gustav Sonata – Rose Tremain A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows The Other Einstein – Marie Benedict