Network Canada Book Club

Network Canada launched our book club in the spring of 2002 to enhance the offering to our members. The club is designed for those with a genuine interest in books. We generally once a month in a central London venue. Our venues are usually informal pubs and wine bars located in central London. There are usually around a dozen or so who meet to discuss the latest book on offer.

The books are chosen by a different member for each meeting. Books have ranged from such diverse areas as a study in human body language called 'People Watching' to reading an internet website. They are always different, always interesting, and always guaranteed to generate discussion and debate!

Details, including the date and the book selected can be found on the upcoming events page. If you would like more information, please contact us at bookclub@networkcanada.org

The bookclub has read the following titles; each one available for purchase on Amazon.co.uk by clicking on the title or book image.

	Unless by Carol Shields Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. Unless is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives.
	Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Inman turns his back on the Civil War to make his way home to Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he loves. As Ada struggles to make a living, Inman travels through the war-torn landscape of the Confederate states in his voyage home, encompassing all the tragedy and waste of war.
	Happiness by Will Ferguson While the rest of the country is joining the new happinessTM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at New York publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him. It's all the fault of the mysterious Tupac Soiree, and his book What I Learned on the Mountain. But who is Tupac? And how can Edwin stop the world from succumbing to this plague of HappinessTM?
	Enduring Love by Ian McEwan The story of how an ordinary man can be driven to the brink of murder and madness by the delusions of another. It begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident.
	Life of Pi by Yann Martel The plot, if that’s the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a lost boy, the young and eager Piscine Patel of the title (Pi). After a colourful and loving upbringing in gorgeously-hued India, the Muslim-Christian-animistic Pi sets off for a fresh start in Canada.
	The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory The Other Boleyn Girl charts the lives of both Boleyns--each in their turn "the other Boleyn Girl"--and their fiercely ambitious, conniving family who used the girls as pawns to advance their own positions at the court of Henry VIII.
	White Teeth by Zadie Smith In the author's words, this novel is "an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected". It tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to the present day.