Text publishes a number of perfect book club reads. These are the stories that will engage you, challenge your thinking and prompt interesting debate. To help get the conversation flowing, download our book club notes for your next meeting.
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Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
A compelling tale of grief and memory set in a regional Victorian town in the 1960s
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns, pregnant to someone else, that he discovers his surprising talent as a father. So when Trudy finds Jesus and takes little Peter away with her to join the holy rollers, Tom’s heart breaks all over again.
Enter Hannah Babel, quixotic smalltown bookseller: the second Jew – and the most vivid person – Tom has ever met. He dares to believe they could make each other happy.
But it is 1968: twenty-four years since Hannah and her own little boy arrived at Auschwitz. Tom Hope is taking on a batttle with heartbreak he can barely even begin to imagine.
Room for a Stranger
Exploded View
The Trauma Cleaner
Radiant Shimmering Light
The Death of Noah Glass
A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline
The Cage
The Stolen Bicycle
The Shadow Land
A Dutiful Daughter
Anna
The Restorer
War and Turpentine
My Brilliant Friend
My Last Continent
Keep Me Posted
When the Sky Fell Apart
The Life of Elves
The Story of the Lost Child
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
The Story of a New Name
The Truth and Other Lies
The Well
The Surfacing
Academy Street
Silence Once Begun
The Train to Paris
The Pure Gold Baby
The Secret River
The Gargoyle
The Good Muslim
Genesis
An Exclusive Love
All the Way
For Richer, For Poorer
The Woman Before Me
This Is How
Saving Mozart
Hand Me Down World
Mister Pip
The Dinner
Beatrice and Virgil
Murderer’s Thumb
Serena
The Cove
We Need to Talk About Kevin
