New Book Choices March to June

Hi everyone
Here’s something to fire everyone up in these chilly days! It’s the new book choices for the next few months. I think they look really interesting.
As you know, in February we will be reading Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows.
March: New Writing North is planning to do a retrospective event for the Newcastle writer, Gordon Burn, who died of cancer last year. To tie in with this ,we will read his final book : Born Yesterday, the News as a Novel, which took topical news stories and fictionalized them.
April: The Shadow of a Smile by Kachi Ozumba
Kachi Ozumba teaches creative writing at Newcastle University and this is his first novel. It is about a Nigerian student who is imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit.
‘Ozumba has written a tragic story exploring the powerlessness of the law, and the ease with which it can be abused by those appointed its custodians.’ -The Independent.

May: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. You can’t have escaped the recent publicity after this won the Costa Book Award!
June: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
`A gripping story, with beguiling characters . . . As well as being a supernatural tale, it is a meditation on the nature of the British and class, and how things are rarely what they seem. Chilling.’ – Kate Mosse, The Times, Summer Read
July: Over to You. Choose a summer party, a barbeque on the beach, a book swap, book quiz, have a list of favorites in June and then vote on them for July. July is the month for you and your book group to decide what you would like to do. Can we top last year’s literary picnic?
Hope this inspires everyone to keep reading – after all, once you’ve built a snowman, there’s not much else to do at the moment!
Kim at Doolally’s is away at the moment but I’ll contact her as soon as possible to get the books in stock.
See you all next month!