Title:
The Icarus Girl
Author:
Helen Oyeyemi
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Anchor
Release Date:
2006
Pages:
337
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison, a racially-mixed child, is growing up feeling that she is caught between two different worlds, until she is sent to visit relatives in Nigeria, where she comes face to face with a mysterious new friend.
Meeting: 6th May 2006
Without much time to look for this month’s bookclub book, I was relying on the Irish Times Saturday
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Title:
The Last King of Scotland
Author:
Giles Foden
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Release Date:
1999
Pages:
335
Meeting: 5th July 2007
As a child I devoured every book within reach, many of which, I probably shouldn’t have been reading! One of those books, which I read when I was about 10, was about the terrible reign of Ugandan President Idi Amin, complete with photos of his victims. It was a book that haunted me for a long time and, since then, I’ve had an interest
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Title:
Memoir
Author:
John McGahern
Genre:
Biography, Irish
Release Date:
2006
Pages:
272
Meeting: 14th December 2006
Sometimes bookclub books are chosen carefully; sometimes they occur by default. Memoir is one of the serendipitous accidents. A last minute trip to the bookshop before the last bookclub resulted me being unable to get seven copies of my book of choice. At the last minute, I saw a stack of Memoir and, as it’s been on my Must Read list since
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Title:
Perfume
Author:
Patrick Süskind
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Release Date:
2001
Pages:
255
Meeting: 12th March 2007
Synopsis
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human’s. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet, there is one
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