Ashburton Booktalk

The final Ashburton Library booktalk was this morning. Here are the books that we recommended.



Sue
GRIFFITHS, Elly.
The crossing places.
FIC GRIFF

TRAPIDO, Barbara.
Sex and Stravinsky.
FIC TRAPI

SHEERS, Owen.
Resistance.
FIC SHEER

RIGG, Annie & GRATWICKE, Catherine.
Gifts from the kitchen : 100 irresistable homemade presents for every occasion.
641.5 RIG

Holley

DURRELL, Gerald.
The aye-aye and I : a rescue mission in Madagascar.
591.9691 DUR

WINCHESTER, Simon.
The map that changed the world : the tale of William Smith and the birth of a science.
551.092 WIN

GOGOL, Nikolai.
The collected tales.
FIC GOGOL

LONDON, Joan.
Gilgamesh.
FIC LONDO

Ros
KOSTOVA, Elizabeth.
The swan thieves.
FIC KOSTO

TUMARKIN, Maria
Otherland : a journey with my daughter.
920.72 TUM

FRENCH, Jackie.
A year in the valley.
994.47 FRE

LäCKBERG, Camilla.
The stonecutter.
FIC LACKB

And the winner is...

The 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Howard Jacobson for his novel The Finkler Question.

From the press release.

"London author and columnist Howard Jacobson has been longlisted twice for the prize, in 2006 for Kalooki Nights and in 2002 for Who's Sorry Now, but has never before been shortlisted.

The Finkler Question is a novel about love, loss and male friendship, and explores what it means to be Jewish today.

Said to have ‘some of the wittiest, most poignant and sharply intelligent comic prose in the English language', The Finkler Question has been described as ‘wonderful' and ‘richly satisfying' and as a novel of ‘full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding'."

Reserve The Finkler Question here.

Balwyn Booktalk 11 October 2010.

At the final Balwyn Booktalk for 2010 - here is a list of the books talked about.

Fiona

CONNELLY, Michael.

The reversal

FIC CONNE

CHILD, Lee

Worth dying for

FIC CHILD

LAWSON, Valerie.

Mary Poppins she wrote

928.21 TRA(L)

BOSCO, Alix.

Slaughter Falls

FIC BOSCO

Philippa

WESTERFELD, Scott.

Leviathan

TFIC WESTE

SHEERS, Owen.

Resistance

FIC SHEER

IBBOTSON, Eva.

The morning gift

The secret countess

Magic flutes

A company of swans

FIC IBBOT

TFIC IBBOT

Fiona

FLYNN, Gillian.

Dark places

FIC FLYNN

KAROLIDES, Nicholas.

120 banned books

098.1 KAR

GIMENEZ, Mark.

The common lawyer

FIC GIMEN

HALPERN, Justin.

Sh*t my dad says

081 HAL

Nobel Prize in Literature 2010

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 has been awarded to Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

For more information about Mario Vargas Llosa click here.

To check the library catalogue click here.