24.07.2019 - A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (1999) In two separate sessions, Sandra and Andrew discuss this brilliantly executed novel… In the Peak District village of Scardale, 13-year-old girls don’t just run away. So, when Alison Carter vanished...
11.06.2019 - ‘The Only Story’ (2018) by Julian Barnes “Would you love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.” First love has lifelong consequences, but...
11.06.2019 - ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ (2003) by Amos Oz Lee-Anne, Sylvia, Sandra and Andrew discuss Amos Oz’s 2003 ‘novelistic memoir’ ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’. “Love and darkness are just two of the...
18.04.2019 - ‘Transcription’ (2018) by Kate Atkinson Sandra, Maria, Thomas and Andrew discuss Kate Atkinson’s 2018 novel ‘Transcription’. In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of MI5...
04.04.2019 - Kulturgespräch mit Claudia Rauchegger-Fischer “Sind wir eigentlich schuldig geworden?” – Unter diesem Titel hat Claudia Rauchegger-Fischer ein Buch vorgelegt, dass erstmals die Generation der BDM – Bund deutscher Mädel,...
12.03.2019 - ‘On Chesil Beach’ (2007), by Ian McEwan A stunning ‘novella’… It is July 1961. Edward and Florence, young Innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their room they struggle to...
05.03.2019 - Vielen wird der Name Rosa Luxemburg ein Begriff sein. Aber was wissen wir wirklich über sie? Dieser und weiteren Fragen geht Radio Stimme in einer Rezension über die Graphic Novel „Rosa“ auf den Grund. Richtig gehört und gelesen. Eine...
18.02.2019 - ‘Educated’ (2018) by Tara Westover Maria, Georg, Heinz, Sandra and Andrew discuss this extraordinary book: ‘an unflicnching account of love and brutality, of the strength of blood ties and the power of imagination’ (Sarah...
23.01.2019 - ‘Unsheltered’ (2018) by Barbara Kingsolver Maria, Sandra, Susie and Andrew discuss the parallel storylines, contrasting characters, diverse themes and original narrative structure of the novel. ‘How could two hardworking people do everything...
23.01.2019 - ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ (2012) by Rachel Joyce When Harold Frau leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the...
