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...
07.08.2023 - Reading Circle – Summer Programme During the summer months we have a break from our Reading Circle and so, for the next three programmes we will be looking back at some of the books we have read in the last year. Today we are going to...
24.07.2023 - Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia Today’s novel was first published in 2021. It is the first novel by Gabriela Garcia, a fiction writer, poet and journalist. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Steinbeck...
19.06.2023 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews The introduction on the back cover reads: ‘Sixteen-year -old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village,...
06.06.2023 - Love Marriage by Monica Ali Today’s book was published in 2022, and it’s by the writer of that famous novel ‚Brick Lane‘ (published 2003) – Monica Ali. After a ten-year hiatus, during which Ali suffered a ‘loss of...
06.06.2023 - We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Today’s book, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. It was published in 2013 and was the first novel for NoViolet Bulawayo, a pen name, belonging...
22.03.2023 - Furious Hours by Casey Cep (2019) This month‘s book is about a famous American writer and her struggle to write a second book after a very successful first one. Here’s the blurb from the back cover: ‚Reverend Willie Maxwell, a rural...
14.02.2023 - Lessons, Ian McEwan (2022) This month we introduce Lessons by Ian McEwan, published in 2022. This is McEwan’s 17th novel, which he wrote during the pandemic lockdown. The blurb on the cover of the book reads: “When the world is still...
23.01.2023 - The Hours, Michael Cunningham (1998) In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of late 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to...
