December Bookclub meeting postponed to January 07, 2016

Our Christmas meeting is postponed to  
Thursday 07 January 2016, in Reans at 4pm to discuss Wendy’s choice, 

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.  

Wendy will bring champagne (or some sort of bubbles!), Pam is kindly making mince pies, Cathie and me some savouries for this Christmas meeting.  Any other offers of nibbles most welcome.

We will also be choosing the February book from Ann’s suggestions which are:

‘If on a winter’s night a traveller’, by Italo Calvino 

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler is a surreal story about the hunt for a mysterious book. The book deals playfully with the writing of fiction and its conventions. 

‘Red Dust’ by Gillian Slovo

Red Dust is a literary novel which explores the meanings and effects of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and was made into a film released in 2004.  

‘The Fever Tree’, by Jennifer McVeigh

‘The Fever Tree’ has been compared to Gone with the Wind and Out of Africa. The novel takes place in South Africa, in 1880, a country torn apart by greed. In this remote and inhospitable land, the protagonist, Frances becomes entangled with two very different men—one driven by ambition, the other by his ideals.

‘The Magus’, by John Fowler

John Fowles unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of human complexities. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, The Magus is a feast for the mind and the senses.

The January book, suggested by Cathie is 

West with the Night by Beryl Markham.  

Thursday 21 January in Reans at 2.30.

 

Looking forward to kicking off the Christmas festivities. 
Meanwhile, have a very happy, indulgent Christmas!!
See you in January
Jackie