09.12.2024 - The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride The book we are introducing today is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, published in 2023. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is about the intertwining lives of African...
09.12.2024 - Erasure by Percival Everett This month’s book is not a recent publication. In fact it was first published in 2001, but the themes it tackles are still very relevant today. It’s Erasure, by Percival Everett. Percival Everett is a prolific...
18.11.2024 - Victory City by Salman Rushdie Sir Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American novelist, is one of the best-known contemporary novelists in the English language. Today we are going to introduce his novel, Victory City, published in 2023. He is...
08.10.2024 - Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation Since 1945 by Paul Lendvai This month we are introducing a work of non-fiction, published in English in 2023, by a respected journalist. The book is Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation...
27.08.2024 - The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle In this programme we introduce a book that was first published in 1995 but which seems even more relevant today. It is The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle. Born in New York in December 1946, he is the New...
04.07.2024 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan In this programme we introduce Small Things Like These (2021) by Claire Keegan, an Irish author whose stories are translated into thirty languages and have won several literary prizes. The publisher’s...
11.06.2024 - Scenes From a Childhood by Jon Fosse In this programme we introduce Scenes from a Childhood, by Norwegian author, Jon Fosse, published in 2018. Jon Fosse is an author, translator and, especially, a playwright. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel...
06.05.2024 - Dienstag, den 05. März 2024: This month we are introducing a book about childhood. The book is ‚Boyhood, Scenes from Provincial Life‘, a fictionalized, autobiographical novel, by J.M. Coetzee, published in 1997. J.M. Coetzee is one of...
27.02.2024 - Assembly by Natasha Brown Today’s book is author Natasha Brown’s first novel. It caused quite a stir in the literary world when it was published in 2019. The book is set in the late summer of 2019. The blurb on the back cover of the novel...
08.01.2024 - Dienstag, den 02. Jänner 2024: The Latecomer by Jean Hanff KorelitzThe book we introduce this month is The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz, an American novelist, playwright, theatre producer and essayist. Published in 2022, it tells the...
28.12.2023 - Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud The book we introduce this month is Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud, published in 2020. Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad and moved to London at the age of 18. She studied law and pursued an academic career,...
13.11.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 07. November 2023:On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongThe book we introduce is On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, published in 2019. The author, Ocean Vuong, is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. Oktober 2023: Reading Circle – summer programme This is the last of our three summer programmes when we are revisiting some of the books we read last year, while the Reading Circle has its summer...
09.10.2023 - Dienstag, den 05. September 2023: Reading Circle – Summer Programme During the summer months we have a break from our Reading Circle and so, for the three summer months we will be looking back at some of the books we have read in the last...
