Silversurfers Book Club Winter 2023
Each season we share a selection of popular book titles and new releases which you may like to read as part of our Silversurfers Book Club.
How and when you read is up to you; you can choose to read them on a tablet or an actual paperback, and you can read them in your own time.
When you’ve finished reading, join us in the comments section below this post and write a review of the book and share your feedback with others who have read along too.
To get you started, below are some suggested titles to kick off the new Winter 2023 Silversurfers Book Club Season… Simply select the title you would like to read, and if you would like to buy it or download it for your Kindle or other tablets, there is a link next to the book title, which will direct you to Amazon, making it simple for you to buy.
Alternatively, you may wish to buy the book elsewhere, or borrow it from your local library.
SIMPLY CLICK ON THE IMAGE OF THE BOOK YOU FANCY AND YOU WILL BE DIRECTED TO THE BOOK ON AMAZON … most titles are around £6 to purchase and less on a Kindle!
If you have previously read another book and would like to recommend it as a future read for the Silversurfers book club, feel free to leave the title and author in the comments section, with a brief synopsis, and your review.
The Match by Harlan Coben
Book Synopsis
This is the long-awaited and deeply engrossing sequel to Coben’s “The Boy from the Woods,” the story of Wilde, a feral child found aged 5 living alone and abandoned in the Ramapo Mountains in New Jersey.
Three decades after Wilde was found, 5 years old, feral and living alone in the woods with no memory of his past, he tries to find his father on a DNA ancestry website. What follows is a riveting suspense-filled trip through murder, revenge and discovery that’s impossible to put down. Classic Coben, and a terrific read.
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
Book Synopsis
One disaster at or in a school swiftly overtakes another. A school fire. A school shooting. However shocking and horrendous, such dreadful events tend to blur into each other. But not Aberfan. The abrupt engulfing of a Welsh mining village school under a tide of liquid black filth back in the 1960s endures as a particular piece of ghastly British heritage. Incredibly, in A Terrible Kindness, Jo Browning Wroe turns this appalling incident into a sort of tenderness. Quite an achievement.
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Book Synopsis
First-time mother Frida Liu is desperate. She’s been up for hours with her new baby and is exhausted, but has left a vitally important document on her desk at work. Surely it can’t hurt to rush out and get it, leaving her daughter Harriet unattended for ‘just’ an hour? The consequences will be Kafkaesque. Frida is sucked into a punitive process of state re-training as a mother. If she fails to make the grade, she will lose everything – including Harriet. Provocative and utterly compelling.
Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold
Book Synopsis
A fast-moving and addictive crime thriller set in a small town in which a terrible child-on-child crime occurred 20 years ago. One of the victims was award-winning journalist Ben Harper’s brother. Under pressure from his editor to write about it, he discovers the terrible secrets that led to the murders. A first-rate debut thriller.
The French House by Jacquie Bloese
Book Synopsis
It is 1940. France has fallen to Hitler’s victorious tank divisions. The British have somehow managed to slip from the jaws of defeat, at Dunkirk. But the Channel Islands – much closer to France than England and impossible to defend – swiftly fall under Nazi control. Yet strangely – even perversely – love between the hated occupier and the oppressed occupied is possible. And it happens.
The Favour by Nora Murphy
Book Synopsis
Two pretty women living in beautiful houses with their successful husbands. They’ve never met. But they share a shameful secret: both husbands are controlling and abusive. When the women do meet the result is violence and murder. Addictive and brilliant, this debut novel delves into suburban marriage and what happens when the wives fight.
ENJOY YOUR READING AND DON’T FORGET WE’D LOVE TO READ YOUR VIEWS BELOW … HAPPY READING!
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