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Most members gave this page-turner five stars. Comments included “I couldn’t put it down”, “each chapter escalates the interest” and “entirely credible”.

Members felt that Hugh Mackay should turn his attention to growing tomatoes rather than writing any more books after struggling to read his latest effort.

Members grappled with a completely different kind of novel when they read Circe (pronounced Sir-Sea).

The Lady and the Unicorn in the title of this novel by Tracy Chevalier is the modern name for a series of six tapestries woven in Flanders from designs drawn in Paris about 1500.

Members unanimously liked this touching book about the lonely Eleanor who is of course NOT completely fine but who is struggling to become so, even if her strategies are often unhelpful.

It is always interesting to see on the cover of a book – “Two Million Copies Sold Worldwide” and to ponder how many people actually read it.

Members’ reactions to The Tattooist were mixed. Some liked and were impressed by the story while the book did nothing for others.

Ben Elton’s Time and Time Again was a new adventure for some of our Members who had not read alternative histories or science fiction before.

Members were in turn totally engrossed, mildly irritated and appalled by Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker Prize winning novel.

Some members had difficulty getting past the descriptions of monotonous well-digging (which was clearly a feat of hard manual labour without the benefit of safety equipment in rural Turkey in the 1980s).