2018

 

July

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr 

 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist..... >>

Swing Time

by Zadie Smith: 

 

Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has  ..... >>

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Fin de siècle et la Mosquée Verte à Brousse" by Pierre Loti 

 

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In Farleigh Field 

Rys Bowen

 

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters,  when a soldier with a failed parachute... >>

Constantinople

Edmondo de Amicis

 

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,... >>


 

June

Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work

Philip Roth

 

In Philip Roth’s intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work... >>

The Book of Men: Eighty writers on How to be a Man

Colum McCann

 

The Book of Men, an unflinching investigation into the essence of masculinity. Eighty pieces of short fiction and non fiction on manhood by some of world best writers.... >>

 


The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

by Arundhati Roy

 

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the..... >>

 

 

May

La Place

by Annie Ernaux

 

Il n'est jamais entré dans un musée, il ne lisait que Paris-Normandie et se servait de son Opinel pour manger. Ouvrier devenu >>

The Punishment She Deserves

by  Elizabeth George

 

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the past as they try to solve a crime that threatens to tear apart ...... >>

Sixty Million Frenchman Can't be Wrong

by Jean-Benoît and Julie Barrow

 

Why we love France, but not the French.  So what makes the French so different ? A journey into the French heart, mind and .... >> 

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

 

A study guide for the novel Persuasion.

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April

Lullaby

by Leila Slimani 

Translated from the French by  Sam Taylor

 

When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they ..... >>

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: 

by  Zelda la Grange

 

A white Afrikaner, Zelda la Grange grew up in segregated South Africa, supporting the regime and the rules of apartheid. Her conservative family referred to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as “a terrorist.” Yet just a few years after his release and the end of apartheid, she would be traveling the world...... >>

Leopardi

by Iris Origo

 

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is widely considered the greatest Italian poet since Dante, He was a scholar ..  >>

Sex and the Citadel; Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

by Shereen El Feki 

 

If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms. As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments  ..... >>

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The Genius of the London Tube Map by Michael Bierut.