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TITLES FOR THE WHITINGHAM ETC. BOOK GROUP FOR 2024 .

January: THE PARIS APARTMENT/LUCY FOLEY explores how loyalty & inherent survival instincts can be exploited for wealth and security. (Published February 2022)

February: THE GENIUS OF BIRDS/JENNIFER ACKERMAN info on a bird's intelligence 04/15)

March: DINNERS WITH RUTH/ NINA TOTENBERG. A memoir on the power of friendship (9/2022)

April: MERCY STREET BY JENNIFER HAIGH. Explains the abortion issue from both sides...prochoice and pro-life. Published February 2022

May: BUMBLEBEE ECONOMICS BY BERND HEINRICH an introduction to insect and plant ecology focusing on the adaptive bumblebee Published 1979

June: THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS BY JODIE PICOULT. Dawn Edelstein journeys into her past to determine her future (Boston to Egypt). Published September 2020

July: PACINKO BY MINJIN LEE a novel (historical fiction) follows a Korean family who immigrates to Japan published February 2017

August: Henry, Himself BY Stuart O'nan Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honour. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple any more. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife, Emily, and dog, Rufus, stand by him.

Once so confident, as Henry's strength and memory desert him, he weighs his dreams against his regrets and is left with questions he can't answer: Is he a good man? Has he done right by the people he loves? And with time running out, what, realistically, can he hope for?
Henry, Himself is a wry, warmhearted portrait of an American original - a man who believes he's reached a dead end only to discover life is full of surprises.

Sept: THE NIGHT WATCHMAN BY LOUISE ERDRICH based on the life of the author's grandfather who worked as a night watchman & carried the fight against native dispossession from rural North Dakota to Washington DC. Explores themes of love & death with lightness (02.2022

October: AMAZING GRACE ADAMS/FRAN LITTLEWOOD ferocious, funny and tender...a woman walks across London to deliver a birthday cake for her 16 year old daughter reliving the joys and tragedies of the previous decade. Published January 2023

November: THE MITFORD AFFAIR/MARIE BENEDICT. An explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters...one of whom will have to choose a country or her family as the sisters get caught in the crosshairs of WWII. Published January 2023

Dec: THE NIGHT PORTRAIT/LAURA MORELLI an exciting dual time-line historical novel about the creation of one Leonardo de Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine & the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during WWII. (9/2020)