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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]]. | [[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]]. | ||
| − | 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/. Accessed: 2015- | + | 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/. Accessed: 2015-12-06. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6da6wL0kw)</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. |
==Books discussed== | ==Books discussed== | ||
Revision as of 20:47, 6 December 2015
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 the end of 2015):[1]
- The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al Aswany
- Giovanni's Room, and Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Mr Clive & Mr Page by Neil Bartlett
- The Gulf between us by Geraldine Bedell
- Smut by Alan Bennett
- Ruby Fruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
- Shameless by Paul Burston
- Love is where it Falls by Simon Callow
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- Briefs Encountered by Julian Clary
- Retreat from Love by Colette
- The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Astray by Emma Donoghue
- Justine by Lawrence Durrell
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Bird Keeper by Issy Festing
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
- Maurice by E M Forster
- Rough Music by Patrick Gale
- Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- The Lost Boy, the Doodlebug, and the Mysterious Number 80 by Stevie Henden
- Carol by Patricia Highsmith
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- Goodbye to Berlin and A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
- Trumpet by Jackie Kay
- The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
- Tales of the City, Michael Tolliver Lives and The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin
- A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- At my Mother's Knee and Other Low Joints by Paul O'Grady
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
- The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
- A Stone's Throw and Tell it to the Bees by Fiona Shaw
- Mrs Keppel and her Daughter by Diana Souhami
- Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig
- Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
- The Death of Lucy Kyte by Nicola Upson
- The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
- Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
- Affinity , Fingersmith, The Night Watch, and Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- My Lives by Edmund White
- Oranges are not the only Fruit, Written on the Body and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.rainbowreadinggroup.org.uk/. Accessed: 2015-12-06. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6da6wL0kw)
