Our book choice for January 2015 is Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. Toronto 1843: The young maid Grace is found guilty of the double murder. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, […]
Our book choice for December 2014 is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy’s classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.
Our book choice for November 2014 is No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection.
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Our book choice for October 2014 is Union Street by Pat Barker. Vivid, bawdy and bitter, Pat Barker’s first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world.
Our book choice for September 2014 is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke.
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Our book choice for August 2014 is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960.
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Our book choice for July 2014 is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby.
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Our book choice for June 2014 is Dark Entries by Robert Aickman. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult.
Our book choice for May 2014 is A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine by Tony Benn. The book chronicles both the public and the personal events of the last decade of his life in Westminster and his ‘retirement’ thereafter.
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Our book choice for April 2014 is Autobiography by Morrissey. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.
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