Join us for our next Book Club gathering! The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (400 pages, 2016) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on […]

Join us for our next Book Club gathering! China Dream by Ma Jian (192pp, 2018) After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to […]

Join us for our next Book Club gathering! Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa (320pp/2021) Political fiction from Peruvian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that […]

Join us for our next Book Club gathering! Kilometre 101 by Maxim Osipov (296 pages/2022) Russian writer and cardiologist, publishing-house founder, one-time research fellow at the University of California, Maxim Osipov practised medicine near Moscow until 2022, when he moved to Germany. In these times of war, when it is difficult to understand or sympathise […]

Join us for our next Book Club gathering! The Plague by Albert Camus (272 pages/1947) Philosoper, journalist, resistance fighter Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia […]

Join us for our next Book Club gathering! The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (336 pages/2019) Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined […]

Join us for this month's Book Club on Wednesday, February 28th. The Flanders Road by Claude Simon (original publication 1960-reprint 2018/192 pages).  During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the […]

Join us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, March 26th Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood (1933/280 pages).  After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close  friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite […]