Title:
The Story of Lucy Gault
Author:
William Trevor
Genre:
Cork (Ireland)
Release Date:
2010
Pages:
227
Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults, as Protestants, are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. She is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. But the path she chooses ends
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Title:
Pedro Páramo
Author:
Juan Rulfo
Genre:
Classics, Cult
Release Date:
1994
Pages:
124
Meeting: Wednesday 7th October 2003
It has taken me some time to write the review of Pedro Paramo, and I still don’t know what to say. At this stage I can only be brief but feel this book deserves a couple of re-reads.
Juan Preciado, promises his dying mother that he will search for his father, Pedro Paramo. He then embarks on a journey to find the town of Comala, somewhere in
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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:
Bel Canto
Author:
Ann Patchett
Genre:
Literature
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date:
2002
Pages:
318
Meeting: Sunday 27th April 2003
A spellbinding novel set in the sumptuous home of a humble vice-president of an un-named Latin American country.
The action begins, and just as quickly dissipates, when kidnappers burst into a party given in honour of a visiting Japanese businessman and would-be investor.
Amidst the andante that follows we watch the unlikely relationships that develop
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