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The '''Rainbow Reading Group''' is an LGBT reading group, sponsored by [[Croydon Area Gay Society]] and meeting monthly in Croydon Library. It was started in October 2010, but had its official opening in February 2011 with a visit by Issy Festing, author of <cite>The Bird Keeper</cite>.
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[[File:Rainbowreadinggroup.logo.jpg|thumb|Rainbow Reading Group logo]]The '''Rainbow Reading Group''' is an LGBT Reading Group, organised by [[Croydon Area Gay Society]] (CAGS) in conjunction with Croydon Library. It meets monthly in the Central Library, [[Croydon]].
  
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==External links==
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It was started in October 2010, but had its official opening in February 2011 with a visit by Issy Festing, author of <cite>The Bird Keeper</cite>.<ref name=homepage>[http://www.rainbowreadinggroup.org.uk/ Rainbow Reading Group home page]. [http://www.webcitation.org/6pRVZKOFt Archived] by WebCite® at 2017-04-03.</ref> [[Fiona Shaw (author)|Fiona Shaw]], author of ''A Stone's Throw'', was the guest in February 2013, and [[Stevie Henden]], author of ''The Lost Boy, the Doodlebug, and the Mysterious Number 80'' was the guest in February 2014.
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Official site: http://www.rainbowreadinggroup.org.uk/
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==Books discussed==
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Books so far read and discussed (to December 2018):<ref name=homepage />
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*<cite>Blood Relatives</cite> by [[Stevan Alcock]]
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*<cite>The Yacoubian Building</cite> by Alaa al Aswany
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*<cite>Giovanni's Room</cite>, <cite>Go Tell it on the Mountain</cite> and <cite>Just Above My Head</cite> by James Baldwin
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*<cite>Mr Clive &amp; Mr Page</cite> and <cite>Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall </cite> by [[Neil Barlett]]
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*<cite>Days without End </cite> by Sebastian Barry
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*<cite>Gay Berlin - Birthplace of a Modern Identity </cite> by Robert Beachey
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*<cite>The Gulf between us</cite> by Geraldine Bedell
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*<cite>Leaving Tangiers</cite> by Tahar Ben Jelloun
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*<cite>Smut</cite> by [[Alan Bennett]]
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*<cite>Ruby Fruit Jungle</cite> by Rita Mae Brown
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*<cite>Shameless</cite> by [[Paul Burston]]
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*<cite>The Miniaturist</cite> by Jessie Burton
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*<cite>Love is where it Falls </cite>by [[Simon Callow]]
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*<cite>Breakfast at Tiffany's</cite> by Truman Capote
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*<cite>Briefs Encountered</cite> by [[Julian Clary]]
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*<cite>Retreat from Love</cite> by Colette
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*<cite>The Naked Civil Servant</cite> by [[Quentin Crisp]]
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*<cite>[[Not my Father's Son]]</cite> by [[Alan Cumming]]
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*<cite>The Hours</cite> by Michael Cunningham
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*<cite>[[A Boxful of Ideas: Poetry &amp; Prose by LGBT Writers]] </cite> edited by [[John Dixon]] and [[Jeffrey Doorn]]
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*<cite>Astray</cite> by Emma Donoghue
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*<cite>In A Hidden Room</cite> by Stella Duffy
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*<cite>[[James Miranda Barry]] </cite> by [[Patricia Duncker]]
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*<cite>Justine</cite> by Lawrence Durrell
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*<cite>Middlesex</cite> by Jeffrey Eugenides
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*<cite>Mr Loverman </cite> by Bernardine Evaristo
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*<cite>In the Darkroom</cite> by Susan Faludi
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*<cite>[[The Bird Keeper]]</cite> by Issy Festing
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*<cite>Over the Rainbow: Money Class &amp; Homophobia</cite> by Nicola Field
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*<cite>Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café</cite> by Fannie Flagg
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*<cite>[[Maurice]]</cite> by [[E M Forster]]
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*<cite>Rough Music</cite>, <cite>A Place Called Winter</cite> and <cite>Notes from an Exhibition </cite> by [[Patrick Gale]]
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*<cite>Arctic Summer</cite> and <cite>In a Strange Room</cite> by Damon Galgut
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*<cite>[[Carrington]]: A Life</cite> by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
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*<cite>[[Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology]]</cite> by [[John R Gordon]]
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*<cite>Notes on a Scandal</cite> by [[Zoë Heller]]<cite></cite>
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*<cite>The Lost Boy, the Doodlebug, and the Mysterious Number 80</cite> by [[Stevie Henden]]
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*<cite>Carol</cite> by Patricia Highsmith
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*<cite>[[Speak my Language and other stories]]</cite> edited by [[Torsen Højer]]
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*<cite>The Line of Beauty</cite> by [[Alan Hollinghurst]]
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*<cite>Goodbye to Berlin</cite>, and <cite>A Single Man</cite> by [[Christopher Isherwood]]
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*<cite>Trumpet</cite>, and <cite>The Red Dust Road</cite> by [[Jackie Kay]]
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*<cite>Mr Foote's Other Leg</cite> by Ian Kelly
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*<cite>The Rainbow</cite> by [[D H Lawrence]]
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*<cite>The Gracekeepers</cite> by [[Kirsty Logan]]
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*<cite>Tales of the City</cite>, <cite>Michael Tolliver Lives</cite>, and <cite>The Days of Anna Madrigal</cite> by Armistead Maupin
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*<cite>A Darker Domain</cite> by [[Val McDermid]]
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*<cite>Enduring Love</cite> by [[Ian McEwan]]
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*<cite>At my Mother's Knee and Other Low Joints</cite> by [[Paul O'Grady]]
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*<cite>Under the Udala Trees</cite> by Chinelo Okparanta
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*<cite>Lord Cucumber &amp; the Boy Hairdresser</cite> by [[Joe Orton]]
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*<cite>The Magician’s Assistant</cite> by Ann Patchett
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*<cite>Spectacles</cite> by [[Sue Perkins]]
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*<cite>The Bell Jar</cite> by Sylvia Plath
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*<cite>Twenty-Two Eighty-Four</cite> by [[Christopher Preston]]
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*<cite>Brokeback Mountain</cite> by Annie Proulx
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*<cite>The Friendly Young Ladies</cite> and <cite>The Persian Boy</cite> by [[Mary Renault]]
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*<cite>The Catcher in the Rye</cite> by J D Salinger
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*<cite>A Stone's Throw,</cite> and <cite>Tell it to the Bees</cite> by [[Fiona Shaw]]
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*<cite>Mrs Keppel and her Daughter</cite> and <cite>[[Gluck]]</cite> by [[Diana Souhami]]
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*<cite>The City of Devi</cite> by Manil Suri
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*<cite>Lies we tell Ourselves</cite> by Robin Talley
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*<cite>Valentine Grey</cite> by [[Sandi Toksvig]]
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*<cite>Sacred Country</cite> by [[Rose Tremain]]
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*<cite>The Death of Lucy Kyte</cite> by [[Nicola Upson]]
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*<cite>Myra Breckenridge</cite> by Gore Vidal
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*<cite>The Colour Purple</cite> by Alice Walker
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*<cite>Gypsy Boy</cite> by [[Mikey Walsh]]
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*<cite>Affinity</cite>, <cite>Fingersmith</cite>, <cite>The Night Watch</cite>, <cite>Tipping the Velvet</cite> and <cite>The Paying Guests</cite> by [[Sarah Waters]]
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*<cite>[[Brideshead Revisited]]</cite> by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
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*<cite>My Lives</cite> by Edmund White
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*<cite>The Ballad of Reading Gaol</cite> by [[Oscar Wilde]]
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*<cite>[[Alexander McQueen]]: Beneath the Skin</cite> by Andrew Wilson
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*<cite>Oranges are not the only Fruit</cite>, <cite>Written on the Body</cite>, and <cite>Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?</cite> by [[Jeanette Winterson]]
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*<cite>Memoirs of Hadrian</cite> by Marguerite Yourcenar
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==References==
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<references>
  
 
[[Category:Croydon]]
 
[[Category:Croydon]]
 
[[Category:Reading groups]]
 
[[Category:Reading groups]]
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[[Category:Consortium members]]
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[[Category:Lists]]

Latest revision as of 15:37, 29 December 2018

Rainbow Reading Group logo
The Rainbow Reading Group is an LGBT 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.[1] Fiona Shaw, author of A Stone's Throw, was the guest in February 2013, and Stevie Henden, author of The Lost Boy, the Doodlebug, and the Mysterious Number 80 was the guest in February 2014.

Books discussed

Books so far read and discussed (to December 2018):[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rainbow Reading Group home page. Archived by WebCite® at 2017-04-03.
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