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Revision as of 09:36, 31 March 2014
The Rainbow Reading Group is GBT Reading Group, organised by Croydon Area Gay Society (CAGS) in conjunction with Croydon Library. It meets monthly in the Central Library, Croydon.
It was started in October 2010, but had its official opening in February 2011 with a visit by Issy Festing, author of The Bird Keeper. Fiona Shaw, author of A Stone's Throw, was the guest in February 2013.
Books discussed
Books so far read and discussed (excluding non-UK authors) include:
- The Gulf between us by Geraldine Bedell
- Shameless by Paul Burston
- Love is where it Falls by Simon Callow
- The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
- Justine by Lawrence Durrell
- The Bird Keeper by Issy Festing
- Maurice by E M Forster
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
- The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
- A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- At my Mother's Knee and Other Low Joints by Paul O'Grady
- A Stone's Throw by Fiona Shaw
- The Night Watch, Fingersmith, and Affinity by Sarah Waters
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Oranges are not the only Fruit, and Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
External links
Official site: http://www.rainbowreadinggroup.org.uk/
