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Burton Book Club: Group Read for July 2022

The Glass House (2020) by Eve Chase The truth can shatter everything . . . When the Harrington family discovers an abandoned baby deep in the shady woods, they decide to keep her a secret and raise her as their own. But within days a body is found in the Read more…

By Amanda Read, 4 weeks07/16/2022 ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for June 2022

The End of Men (2022) by Christina Sweeney-Baird Description A RACE AGAINST TIME The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat. A FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love Read more…

By Amanda Read, 2 months ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for May 2022

Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE | BEST PUBLISHED NOVELWOMAN & HOME BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.’ PATRICK GALE DESCRIPTION It is 1950. London is still reeling from Read more…

By Amanda Read, 3 months05/16/2022 ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for April 2022

This month, we have a double-header, take your pick of either, or read both. A Certain Slant of Light (2005) by Laura Whitcomb In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking Read more…

By Amanda Read, 4 months04/18/2022 ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for March 2022

The Second Sleep (2020) by Robert Harris   When a local parson of a remote village dies under mysterious circumstances, Christopher Fairfax, a young English priest, is dispatched on horseback from the cathedral city to conduct his burial. His orders are to give the sermon and leave as quickly as Read more…

By Amanda Read, 5 months03/13/2022 ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for February 2022

The Mirror and the Light (2021) by Hilary Mantel The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. A Guardian Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A Read more…

By Amanda Read, 6 months ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for January 2022

The Bees (2015) by Laline Paull Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015 Description Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 Read more…

By Amanda Read, 7 months ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for December 2021

Dear Child (2020) by Romy Haussmann (transl. Jamie Bulloch)     YOU ESCAPED. BUT HE WILL NEVER LET YOU GO. DESCRIPTION A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father: meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled Read more…

By Amanda Read, 8 months ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for November 2021

The Foundling (2020) by Stacy Halls. Description The captivating Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Familiars Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright Read more…

By Amanda Read, 9 months ago
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Burton Book Club: Group Read for October 2021

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman   In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Read more…

By Amanda Read, 10 months ago

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