World Book Club Around the world in 12 titles
World Book Club
£90 for six months / £15 per session
Meet first Thursday of the month, 2.30pm
£90 for six months - those that sign up for 6 months have priority to receive a free copy of
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (stories)
The Brothers by Asko Salhberg
A Hundred
Million Years and a Day by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Or
My Sweet Orange Tree by Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos
March: Everything Inside
by Edwidge Danticat, stories (Riverrun) HAITI (Meet Thursday 4 March
2.30pm) 219pp
April: Ali and Nino Kurban Said (Penguin) AZERBAIJAN (Thurs
1 April, 2.30pm) 237pp
May: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
(Bloomsbury) PAKISTAN (Thurs 6 May, 2.30pm) 288pp
June: The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg,
translated by Emily and Fleur Jeremiah (Peirene Press) FINLAND (Thurs 3 June,
2.30pm) 122pp
July: A Hundred Million Years and a Day by
Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Gallic Books) FRANCE (Thurs 1 July, 2.30pm) 170pp
August: My Sweet Orange Tree by Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos transl by Alison
Entrekin (Pushkin Press) BRAZIL (Thurs 5 August, 2.30pm) 182pp
Previous titles include:
The Days of
Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions)
ITALY; The Quarter by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Roger Allen
(Saqi) EGYPT; Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan, translated by
Labodalih Sembiring (Verso) INDONESIA; People from my Neighbourhood by Hiromi
Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen (Granta) JAPAN; Spilt Milk by
Chico Buarque, translated by Alison Entrekin (Atlantic Books) BRAZIL; Girl by Edna
O Brien (Faber) IRELAND/NIGERIA; Love by By Hanne Ørstavik,
NORWAY; Under the Tripoli Sky by Kamal Ben Hameda,
LIBYA; Silk By Alessandro Baricco, ITALY/JAPAN; El
Llano in Flames by Juan Rulfo, MEXICO; The Lives of
Animals by J.M. Coetzee, SOUTH AFRICA; The God of
Small Things by Arundhati Roy, INDIA; A Life’s Music by
Andrei Makine, RUSSIA/FRANCE; Running in the Family Michael
Ondaatje, CANADA/SRI LANKA; Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, PAKISTAN; Happiness,
Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta, NIGERIA; Balzac and the
Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, CHINA; Down the Rabbit
Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos, MEXICO.
Also for aspiring writers: regular reading is crucial to fire the imagination, explore language and develop your own writing skills.
