Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday Morning, June 17th. The book selected for our June presentation is "Woman Running in the Mountains" by Yuko Tsushima (2022/ 288 pages). Presented by: Floria Conta Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-working mother, discovers the […]
Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, May 27th. The book selected for our May presentation is "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys (1966/ 176 pages) Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary centre stage. This mesmerising work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a […]
Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, May 6th. (But the date may change because of the holiday. So check the Book Club WhatsApp Chat for any changes.) The book this month is "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles (2016/ 480 pages). Presented by: David Pickup A Gentleman in Moscow immerses […]
Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, March 25th. The book is Dispossessed by Szilard Borbely (2016/ 304 pages). Graziella Viglione is the presenter. A literary sensation on its original publication in Hungary, this hypnotic, hauntingly beautiful first novel from the acclaimed, award-winning poet and author Szilárd Borbély depicts the poverty and cruelty […]
Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, Februay 25th. Floria Contais the presenter. Silverview by John le Carre (2022/ 224 pages). Silverview is a novel by British writer John le Carre, published posthumously on 12October 2021. The book was completed for publication by his son Nick Cornwell. In the afterword, he noted […]
Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, January 28th. The book selected for our January presentation is “A Man’s Place” by Annie Ernaux ( 1993/ 80 pages). David Pickup is the presenter. …Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2022 and this novel/memoir has become a contemporary classic of French writing. […]
Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, December 3rd. The book selected for our December presentation is “Blackwater” by Joyce Carol Oates (1993/ 160 pages). “Black Water” was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1992 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Ornella Cerutti is the presenter. …The […]
Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, October 29th. The book selected for our October presentation is “Eileen” by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016/ 272 pages). Graziella Viglione is the presenter. …Twenty something Eileen Dunlop is bored and unhappy, trapped looking after her alcoholic father, stuck in a dead-end job working at a […]
Welcome back IWCT members! We have an exciting year planned for your reading pleasure. The Book Club’s first presentation of the year is Tuesday, September 24th. The book selected for our September presentation is “Prophet’s Song” by Paul Lynch (244pp/2023) (Booker Prize 2023). Jack Ruane is the presenter. …Ireland is falling apart. The country is […]
Join us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, June 25th. We meet at the Circolo dei Lettori in Via Giambattista Bogino 9 at 10.30 am. The book selected is "The World and All That It Holds" by Aleksander Hemon (352 pps/2023). In all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory, Hemon’s latest novel showcases his celebrated […]
Join us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, May 28th. We meet at the Circolo dei Lettori in Via Giambattista Bogino 9 at 10.30 am. The book for May 28th is Whereabouts by J. Lahiri (176 pps/2021). The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize Winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, […]
Join us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, May 7th. We meet at the Circolo dei Lettori in Via Giambattista Bogino 9 at 10.30 am. The book for May 7th is The Promise by Damon Galgut (2021/ 304 pps) Booker Prize Winner 2021. “The Promise” charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, […]
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 […]
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, January 30th. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (2014/400 pages). On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife […]
