Title:
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Author:
Alexander McCall Smith
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Anchor
Release Date:
1998
Pages:
235
Meeting: Tuesday 12th December 2004
Demian is the story of Emil Sinclair told in the first person. Emil comes from a religious (Christian) family and is essentially a good child. The novel opens with the awakening of Emil to life outside the bubble of childhood and family to individuality, good, evil and the grey area in between. This can be seen as a coming-of-age tale, a meditation
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Title:
Embers
Author:
Sandor Marai
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Vintage
Release Date:
2002
Pages:
213
Meeting: Saturday 29th January 2005
Two best friends grow up together in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early 1900s. As young boys, they were inseparable in the military academy. The boy from the privileged background was destined to become Army General and the other, well, he was always destined to be different, and never did quite fit the military mould. The rich lad pleasured
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Title:
The Colour
Author:
Rose Tremain
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Publisher:
Random House
Release Date:
2004
Pages:
366
Meeting: Friday 8th October 2004
As I head off for the far-flung shores of New Zealand, I wanted my last Bibliofemme choice to reflect the coming changes in my own circumstances. An extended search for books by authors from that country was unfruitful but I eventually discovered Rose Tremain’s The Colour, a book not by a New Zealander but about New Zealand, specifically the
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