Monday, 11 April 2016

Book clubbers very quiet on 'The Sound of our Steps'

School holidays played havoc with attendance at our April Book Club meeting so discussion on Ronit Matalon's prize-winning book was somewhat limited.

Our May meeting will be jam-packed as we discuss two books.

Our selection for this month is Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways which was nominated for the Man Booker 2015.




Kamila Shamsie reviewed this political novel about migrant workers in Sheffield in The Guardian. Mihir Bose wrote this about Sahota's novel on the Independent website.

I am certainly finding it a challenging read.

We'll meet on Thursday 5 May at 6.00pm at Mackay City Library.

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

'The sound of our steps' under review this evening

Just a reminder that Cityside Book Club meets at Mackay City Library tonight at 6.00pm!

We'll be discussing Ronit Matalon's largely auto-biographical prize-winning novel 'The Sound of Our Steps'. This novel has won prizes in its original Hebrew as well as in its French translation.

Looking forward to hearing about our readers' experiences of this rather challenging novel!