Friday Book Club Picks

These Days

'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES

By: Lucy Caldwell
Narrated by: Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK AT BEDTIME
A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year

'Sensationally good' Sunday Times
'Remarkably, unusually vivid' The Times
'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.' Guardian

Two sisters. Four nights. One City.

April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the... Read more

Fresh Water for Flowers

By: Valérie Perrin
Narrated by: Sara Young
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of... Read more

Horse

A Novel

By: Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by: James Fouhey, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, Katherine Littrell & Michael Obiora
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

“This book centers on Lexington, often considered the greatest horse in history. But this book is much more than the story of a horse. Brooks writes of slavery, the Civil War, academia, art and publishing, love and loyalty, and racism in history and today. I loved the bond between Jarret, an enslaved boy, and Lexington. I will be thinking of this... Read more

Palace Walk

Cairo Trilogy: Book #1

By: Naguib Mahfouz
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. Read more