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Our next meeting is on 3rd October at 5pm in the library.

“This is a story about right and wrong and how they sometimes look the same…….”

This biographical novel on the life of Roger Casement is our book for the Summer.  We chose it to compliment an upcoming talk in the Coach House. Angus Mitchell, an expert historian on Casement,  will speak at our local History and Heritage event on 14th September this year,

‘O! Woman of the Endless Labours’: Roger Casement’s letters to Alice Stopford Green (1904-1916). Talk by Angus Mitchell.

“Mario Vargas Llosa’s semi-fictionalised account of Casement’s life portrays a heroic, if ultimately tragic champion of oppressed peoples…Absorbing.” Sunday Telegraph.

Note the change of venue for our last meeting before the Summer break.

“it was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and- green afternoon……”

See you all there

“This fine biography completes the rehabilitation of Maeve Brennan, who can now take her rightful place among the very best Irish short story writers” Irish Examiner

Fifty year old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire, when -after mere months of forgetfulness- she finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of early onset Alzheimers’s disease. Without memory or hope, she is forced to live in the moment, which is in turns beautiful, terrifying, and maddening.

We have one of our favourite authors this month. Donal Ryan has some serious fans in this group. Lets see how his latest novel measures up!

This book has been in the bestsellers for so long now. Let’s find out why.
“A complex and increasingly chilling tale….will wrong-foot even the most experienced of crime fiction readers” Irish Times
Meeting at 5pm on Tuesday 7th February

Nuala O’Connor will be here on 3rd January at 5pm to discuss her very successful novel, Miss Emily. Nuala is well known Palmerstown, having grown up in Mill Lane, and as a daughter of local historian, Hugh o’Connor . We look forward to welcoming her as our first author of 2017

In 1925, this book was published to storm of protest. It is a classic story of a woman’s spiritual awakening.
“Reveals many of Maugham’s strengths: an understanding of women, meticulous craftmanship and raw emotion” Daily Mail

Anne Enright is one of the writers speaking on Readers day on 15th October so we chose her latest book for this month. “This is storytelling, with the blood-pulse of lived gossip…..The Green Road is true and rueful, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans” New yorker