15.12.2022 - Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ (2021) Blurb on back cover: “In 1974 , two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home, Nicosia. The tavern is the only place that Kostas,...
07.11.2022 - ‚Solar Storms‘ (1995), by Linda Hogan „In a novel with the feel of a richly woven pattern, Linda Hogan tells the story of five generations of Native American women in the harsh landscape of the Boundary Waters between Canada and...
31.10.2022 - Our Reading Circle has been running now for 10 years. We have also offered Freirad one-hour Reading Circle programmes for these last five years. We now have a new schedule for the Reading Circle programme. The discussion of the monthly book still...
31.10.2022 - Castaway (1983), Lucy Irvine In 1981 Lucy Irvine answered an advertisement from a man seeking a wife: he wanted a companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. ‘G’ (Gerald Kingsland) intended to write a book about the experience. Lucy...
31.10.2022 - Violeta (2022), Isabel Allende ‘One extraordinary woman, 100 years of history, one unforgettable story’ Violeta Del Valle comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of 5 boisterous sons. From the start, her life...
31.10.2022 - Julia Boyd (& Angelika Patel): A Village in the Third Reich (Elliott & Thomson, 2022) Welcome to the Reading Circle, with Sandra and Andrew Milne-Skinner. Over the last few months we have, as a group, read and discussed two books that have...
13.06.2022 - Paradise (1994), by Abdulrazak Gurnah Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between...
13.06.2022 - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), by Jeanette Winterson “Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle.” ‘This is the story of Jeanette, born to...
13.06.2022 - Interview with Meriel Schindler In a recent Reading Circle programme we introduced the book The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler. Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck...
28.03.2022 - The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler Launched in 1922 by two Jewish brothers, the grand Café Schindler in Maria-Theresien-Straße, Innsbruck offered guests a place to socialize, dance and forget the horrors of the First World War and the...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Oktober 2019: ‚Middle England‘ (2018) by Jonathan Coe Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. „Beginning in 2010, on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been...
21.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 05. November 2019: ‚Blood Summit‘ by Robert Pimm „Counter-terrorism expert Helen Gale has one job: to protect world leaders at a summit in the Berlin Reichstag. But terrorists take hostage...
07.02.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 01. Februar 2022: The Promise, Damon Galgut (2021) Sandra, Sonja and Andrew discuss the 2021 Booker Prize winning novel ‘The Promise’, by Damon Galgut. “The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. Dezember 2019: Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me (2019) Sandra, Sonja and Andrew play extracts from Ian McEwan’s 2019 novel ‚Machines Like Me‘ (read by Billy Howle) and discuss the book....
