Rainbow Reading Group
From LGBT Archive
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 Night Watch and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- The Bird Keeper by Issy Festing
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
- Oranges are not the only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Gulf between us by Geraldine Bedell
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
- Maurice by E M Forster
- The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
- At my Mother's Knee and Other Low Joints by Paul O'Grady
- A Stone's Throw by Fiona Shaw
External links
Official site: http://www.rainbowreadinggroup.org.uk/
