Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (original Spanish title: Crónica de una muerte anunciada)
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ali’s pick
Handsome and mysterious Bayardo San Roman arrives to a small South American coastal town and soon he earns the respect of its people and ends up impressing and marrying the gorgeous Angela Vicario. Continue reading
Title: The drowning girl
Author: Margaret Leroy
Sarah’s Pick
Four year old Sylvie isn’t quite like other children. She can be distant and has regular tantrums and nightmares. She refuses to call her mother “Mum”, instead calling her by her first name. She constantly draws the same picture of her “real home”, says strange things and is very afraid of water. She is fixated with a photo of a seaside village in Ireland. Continue reading
“The Finkler question” written by Howard Jacobson, published by Bloomsbury, has won this year’s Man Booker Prize. Continue reading
Yesterday, Nobel Prize has announced Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading
This Wednesday the group discussed the multi award winning book ‘The Boat’ by Nam Le, a collection of seven short stories, which has also been featured in the ‘Get Reading’ free guide ’50 Books you can’t put down’. To see why the book was voted a ‘highly recommended read’ keep reading this post. Continue reading