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8pm, 9th July – The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a Sunday Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book, translated into twenty-three languages), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life as a Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov (winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot), The Mustache and, most recently, The Kingdom. On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean-Claude Romand was…
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8pm, 10th September – Educated by Tara Westover
Recommended by Barack Obama, Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe. Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers’ Awards. Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because…
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8pm, 10th December – Blankets by Craig Thompson
“One of the greatest love stories ever written and surely the best ever drawn.” Joss Whedon Wrapped in the snowfall of a blustery Midwestern winter, Blankets is the tale of two brothers growing up in rural isolation, and of the budding romance between two young lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of…
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