Tag: Fiction
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8pm, 14th May – Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of four previous novels: In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron and Broken Verses. In 1999 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature and in 2004 the Patras Bokhari Award –…
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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, 12th November – The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
Patrick deWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and later lived in California and Washington state. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride – fighting, shooting,…
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8pm, 9th January 2018 – A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
Translated from Hebrew and winner of The Man Booker International Prize (2017), Grossman’s one inch punch of a novel is a “serious portrait of a shocking standup”. Born and bred in Jerusalem, Grossman’s book has been called a “magnificently comic and sucker-punch-tragic excursion into brilliance,” … “There is nothing extraneous, not one comma, not one…
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8pm, 10th April – Ophelia by Lisa Klein
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts and Clive Owen. “Creatively interweaving fact and fiction, Klein…imagines Shakespeare’s youth in this immersing tale….Will and Meg are distinctly-drawn, engaging protagonists journeying towards self-discovery in this entertaining, inventive story for historical fiction and theater fans.” Check out the GoodReads page here.
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8th May 2018 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The real struggles of a Native American boy make an uplifting story. The title tells it like it is. Sherman Alexie was born a Spokane Indian. He grew up where the book is set, on a reservation – the “rez” – in Wellpinit, Washington state. He was, like his central character, hydrocephalic at birth, “with…
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8pm, 14th August 2018 – See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Just after 11am on 4th August 1892, the bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden are discovered. He’s found on the sitting room sofa, she upstairs on the bedroom floor, both murdered with an axe. It is younger daughter Lizzie who is first on the scene, so it is Lizzie who the police first question, but…
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8pm, 11th September 2018 – Larchfield by Polly Clark
‘We need the courage to choose ourselves.’ W. H. Auden It’s early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she’s excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what…
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8pm, 9th October – Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. This, his debut novel, is often considered his best and is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007. A compelling story of one man’s battle to protect his community against the forces of change.…
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8pm, 14th February – Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
Alan Partridge: “That is the best Valentine’s I’ve had in eight years.” Jill: “What did you do eight years ago?” Alan: “Just had a better one… Went to Silverstone. Shook Jackie Stewart’s hand. Superb. My marriage fell apart soon after that.” Yes, yes, yes… we’ve decided to go for it. Call it the seven year…
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8pm, 10th January – Junk by Melvin Burgess
“Feeling a little blue in January is normal.” Marilu Henner Croeso nol… Welcome back! We hope you’ve had a good break and managed to find time to read Burgess’s cheery tome! As well as, of course, your Secret Santa… have you found a bookish soul mate, or unearthed someone with decidedly odd taste? We can’t…
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8pm, 13th December – Any Roald Dahl book + Secret Santa!
“I-i-i-i-i-i-it’s Chri-i-i-i-i-istmas!” or so yelped Noddy Holder. As such, it’s time for our annual Secret Santa. Pick a book off your shelf that you’ve love, love, LOVED and write a little note to explain why, but don’t sign off: it needs to be a surprise. Wrap it up in the cheapest wrapping paper you can find…
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