Tuesday 2 August 2016

Young@heart book club

Smoke gets in your Eyes: and other lessons from the crematorium by Caitlin Doughty

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life's work.




Britt-Marie was here by Frederik Backman

When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg - of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it - she is more than a little unprepared.  “A little gem of a book!”


Black Flags: the rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick

In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat.





Kit by Marina Fiorato

Novel based on the true story of an Irish woman fighting as a man in  Italy in 1702 – “quite amazing”




The Seamstress by Maria Duenas
1935: As turmoil brews in Europe, Sara Quinora’s carefully mapped-out life is thrown into chaos, first by love, then betrayal. Abandoned and alone, all she has are her skills as a seamstress, a talent that could not only save her but may influence the course of a war...

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