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:
A widow for one year
Author:
John Irving
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Random House
Release Date:
1999-06-01
Pages:
667
Despite the fact that this book has been at hand for more than a year, somehow I never got round to reading it. The curse of the familiar bedside book, the “oh, I’ll read it soon” book! Somehow, though, it made its way through several culls as I moved and packed, managing to land in my travelling bag as something a captive audience
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