Category Archives: general fiction

the jane austen book club — karen joy fowler

Five women and one man come together every month to dis­cuss a Jane Austen book. They are very dif­fer­ent peo­ple with the love for Austen in com­mon. Every month (is every chap­ter) another book is dis­cussed at one of the group member’s home and the life story of that char­ac­ter is being high­lighted in that par­tic­u­lar chap­ter and through­out the story it becomes appa­rant every­body has had their own share of trou­bles, losses and other stuff that is com­mon to life.

harold — kieron connolly

It is Dublin, it is Tues­day and for Harold, Paul, Don­ald and Mickey it is a dif­fer­ent Tues­day than usual. A strange breeze is blow­ing over the river Lif­fey. A breeze that seems to have an effect on time, mem­o­ries, hope and the nor­mal order of life. Few peo­ple notice, but the afore­men­tioned four do and they will have a Tues­day they will never for­get, or remem­ber. Meet Harold…

a knot garden — geoff nicholson

Richard Wis­den is a tele­vi­sion celebrity. He has his own gar­den shows and is very pop­u­lar. So why would he com­mit sui­cide in a hotel room? A ques­tion Libby Wis­den is des­per­ate to answer. In fact, she doesn’t believe he killed him self, she is con­vinced her late hus­band was mur­dered. Deter­ment and wealthy as she is, she hires dif­fer­ent peo­ple (a detec­tive, doc­tor, pho­tog­ra­pher to name a few) to fig­ure out spe­cific facts and insights con­cern­ing Richard’s death. Not an easy task, because along the way secrets, lies and unknown truths come to light and Richard’s life turns out to be as knot­ted as his gardens.

the adventures of huckleberry finn — mark twain

Huck­le­berry Finn, the friend of Tom Sawyer in his own adven­ture. A true boy’s adven­ture.
He has it bad with his father and when things really get from bad to worse, he decides to stage his own death and go south in his boat. On his way he meets a slave he knows, who is going towards his free­dom. As of then they travel together. They become friends and look out for each other even when it is made hard by peo­ple and cir­cum­stances.
Will they both reach their goal?