January 2014 - Book Choices

Happy New Year - we start off early with our first meeting on Thursday 9th January at The Hundred of Ashendon - 8pm. We will be discussing 'Letters From

Skye by Julia Brockmole and Julia Sallabank is 'hosting'. Watch this space as we may need to change venue if the pub is closed. 

Here are our book choices for Jan/Feb 2014 read: 

Knots & Crosses by Ian Rankin

In Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?'

That sort of thing... is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer. And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted string and matchstick crosses - taunting Rebus with pieces of a puzzle only he can solve.

 

This is the first book in the Inspector Rebus series.

 

Burnt Norton by Caroline Sandon

1731: When his youngest son is killed in a tragic accident, Sir William Keyt, master of Norton House, buries himself in his fortune. He builds a second vast mansion on his grounds, squandering money he does not have on luxury his family does not want. Keyt has long been blind to the desires of others. His eldest son has fallen in love with their young maidservant, Molly Johnson, a ray of light in a household dimmed by tragedy. Keyt wants Molly for himself and, driven mad with lust and jealousy, he will do anything to have her...

The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

A naïve young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50 years after the war, however, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive - their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.

Apologies if this post looks odd it's my first done via my phone app - progress it may not be.