http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/ Hereford Times /leisure/books/bookgroup/ en-gb Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:45:48 +0000 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:45:48 +0000 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.herefordtimes.com/resources/images/1000821/?type=rsslogo http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/ http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/5056399.How_one_day_can_change_the_course_of_your_life_forever/?ref=rss EMMA Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet on July 15, 1988, the night of their graduation from Edinburgh University. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:18:56 +0000 67fc335a65593f10d664435cb8771f32 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4836756.Philippa_May_reviews_Chris_Cleave_s__The_Other_Hand_/?ref=rss WHEN 16-year-old Little Bee is inexplicably released from the Black Hill Immigration Removal Centre after two years, all she has to help her navigate her way through freedom is her hard-won command of the Queen’s English – “to survive you must look good or talk good. I decided that talking would be safer for me” – and an Englishman’s driving licence and phone number. Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0000 4b8d517ad0bbf0ec9bb5cf794d0b62ef http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4775062.Hereford_Times_Book_Group__The_Gargoyle_by_Andrew_Davidson/?ref=rss THIS month’s Hereford Times Book Group selection is a novel that has divided opinion and attracted legions of fans as well as detractors. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0000 715b3eb653e60433bc4a6a9814e550fa http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4732047.Greg_climbs_a_humanitarian_mountain/?ref=rss WHEN Greg Mortenson took the wrong path as he descended from a failed attempt on the Himalayan summit of K2, it was a mistake which transformed his life and the lives of thousands of children in the isolated villages of Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:55:50 +0000 23250a219e4c8284cccc75a8f1190aa6 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4671794.More_than_conventional_crime_novel/?ref=rss COINCIDENCE plays quite a large part in Kate Atkinson’s latest novel, When Will There Be Good News?, which once again features laconic ex-soldier, ex-policeman, ex-private eye Jackson Brodie, but such is Atkinson’s skill that she escapes any sense of contrivance. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:58:56 +0100 53aca6643a2c8be1586f7de6f03d1818 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4591642.Two_women_united_across_the_years_by_love_for_one_man/?ref=rss MARRIAGE to Martin Pendleton is something of a leap in the dark for Claire, a young British woman desperate to “escape the dark interior of her house, her bitter mother railing against everything...and an uninspiring job as a filing girl in an insurance company”. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:53:55 +0100 411358fa7597e2bd4a63374a0fdbb9f3 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4533065.Booker_Prize_winner_aims_to_provoke_and_entertain/?ref=rss Balram Halwai, the white tiger of the title of this month’s Book Group selection by Aravind Agida, decides from the moment a school inspector gives him the name of white tiger, the rarest of beasts, that he will fulfil his destiny and escape the poverty of The Darkness and the destiny mapped out for him as a waiter in a tea shop. Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:38:49 +0100 558b9b0e3b1b1a73541c499a5f195ff8 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4486570.The_story_of_a_river_in_poetry_and_prose/?ref=rss TO coincide with Ledbury Poetry Festival, this month’s Book Group selection is Dart by Forward Poetry Prize-winner Alice Oswald. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:16:25 +0100 dd86d7a4ba3e5aeeaeec8a814160aab1 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4419268.Mysterious_tale_of_Gothic_splendour/?ref=rss DIANE Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale is as notable for its timeless atmosphere as for its intriguing, page-turning plot. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:57:44 +0100 b4525572cf078d13a21c04a0abd7af15 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/books/bookgroup/4350413.The_original_country_house_murder/?ref=rss FANS of crime fiction will be fascinated, intrigued and delighted by Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, a book which combines a riveting account of one of the most notorious murders of the Victorian age with a gripping history of the birth of the detective, the development of the detective novel and an illuminating expose of the mores of the age. Thu, 07 May 2009 14:33:49 +0100 ecb819c2557ba2b93b35d97794d94ee6