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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Title:
The Fountain Overflows
Author:
Rebecca West
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Release Date:
1956
Pages:
408
The author re-imagines her own childhood in this witty, often troubling autobiographical novel that follows the lives of members of the Aubrey family from the perspective of Rose, one of four siblings. Original.
Meeting: 13th October 2007
After a lot of research including scouring the recommendations in the Sunday papers and reviewing the ‘top’ lists in the Guardian
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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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