Welcome to the Literary Feast, a book club for guys and girls in their 20-30's who feast on words and books over a cheeky glass or two of wine once a month at Lord Dudley Hotel in Woollahra. Inspired by the movie Dead Poets Society, the Literary Feast began 7 years ago and we have read all kinds of books including The Corrections, The Reader, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Bride Stripped Bare, Birdsong and Life of Pi to name a few. Literary Feast members all read the same book each month, then meet upstairs at Lord Dudley Hotel and go over general questions about the book put together by myself. If you love books, love sharing what you get out of them, love a passionate heated discussion and love talking about the real issues of the world, then the Literary Feast is for you!

If you would like to join the Literary Feast it will only cost you $30 per year (please pay on the 1st night) and simply insert your email address in the subscription box below and you will be put on the list for monthly emails letting you know about the next book.

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This month's book
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

Thought we'd read the book that's currently the topic on many lips at the moment – The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. It also recently won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for the Best Book for South East Asia and the Pacific region and is shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award which will be announced next month

Date: Tuesday 30th June 2009
Time: 7pm
Where: Lord Dudley upstairs by the burning log cozy fire!

The scene: a suburban barbecue where a man slaps a child who is not his own.

The outcome: a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event.

In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.

What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness.

Hope to see you on the 30th.

Thanks and hope you love the read.

Sophie

Berkelouw Books


Literary Feast members are entitled to 10% discount off all purchases (excluding rare books) at Berkelouw bookshops. Please show them your membership card (NB these will be printed and given out at next meeting)

www.berkelouw.com.au

Store Locations:

Paddington
19 Oxford Street
Tel: (02) 9360 3200

Leichhardt
70 Norton St
Tel: (02) 9560 3200

Berrima
Book Barn & Antiquarian Book Department
Bendooley
Old Hume Highway,
Berrima NSW 2577
Tel: (02) 4877 1370

 

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