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20/10/2023 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The October read for the book club is « An American Marriage » by Toyari Jones. “Roy, an up-and-coming executive from the small town of Eloe, Louisiana, and Celestial have been married for a year and a half. The two live in Atlanta, Georgia, where Celestial grew up. A burgeoning artist, Celestial models much of her work […]

22/02/2019 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The February read for the bookclub is « Hag-Seed » by Margaret Atwood. Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the […]

21/12/2018 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The December read for the bookclub is « The Dressmaker » by Beryl Bainbridge. Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour’s party she falls in love as much […]

19/04/2019 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The April read for the bookclub is « The Razor’s Edge » by W. Somerset Maugham. Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involve him with some of Maugham’s most brilliant characters – his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot […]

23/11/2018 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The November read for the bookclub is « Roxana » by Daniel Defoe. Beautiful, proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her foolish husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whore. Embarking on a career as a courtesan and kept woman, the glamour of her […]

18/01/2019 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The January read for the bookclub is « Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine » by Gail Honeyman. Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every week Eleanor Oliphant is happy. […]

22/03/2019 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The March read for the bookclub is « I Married a Communist » by Philip Roth . The second novel of Roth’s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era – a brilliant successor to American Pastoral, I Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as […]

19/10/2018 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The October read for the bookclub is « A Handful of Dust » by Evelyn Waugh. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver […]

21/09/2018 @ 2:30 pm-4:00 pm – The September read for the bookclub is « American Pastoral ». American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour « Swede » Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov’s happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil […]