Do you love to read, and talk about good books over a cup of tea or coffee and some nibblies? Have you ever wanted to recommend a wonderful novel to a wider audience? Here’s your chance to have a say in a very prestigious book recommendation!

Members of Tansley Reads! have nominated eight novels for Tansley's Book of the Year. From now until June, we'll discuss one book on the fourth Monday of each month (except December), rating each one after a (sometimes rowdy) discussion. By June we’ll have a winner! Please join us.

List of nominees (Final score in red):

• October 27: The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor, Sally Armstrong (69%)
• November 24: The Stone Carvers, Jane Urquhart (65%)
• January 26: The Necklace, Cheryl Jarvis
• Remembering the Bones, Frances Itani
• The Outlander, Gil Adamson
• Clara Callen, Richard Wright
• The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen