Links for the next meeting - Purge by Sofi Oksanen

British cover

American cover

A review in The Guardian

A review in Words Without Borders (Spoiler alert - there's one in the first line of the review...)

A play is opening in New York in 2011

& a film 'Puhdistas' (in Finnish) is scheduled to open in 2012

Sofi Oksanen's own site

We met at the Baltic Restaurant - a suitably Eastern European venue, with quite a lot of German and Eastern European food in the bar.

Frank Gehry's Treasure Island

Puffin have commissioned a number of special editions as part of their 70th Birthday celebrations.

You can buy this fabulous looking edition of Treasure Island by the architect Frank Gehry for £100.

Limited to 1000 copies only, and an earlier edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover now sells for over £300 on Amazon Marketplace.

Other books include James & The Giant Peach (Anthony Gormley) (already sold out) and Oliver Twist (Sir Peter Blake).

Links for the next meeting - The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

An interview with the author:



Interesting review from The Guardian

It has its own website, bless - and its own Facebook group

Book Club Guidance from the wacky old WWW

Packabook

Packabook is a new(ish) website that provides a list of novels set in different counties.

It's a great resource if you're trying to get inspired pre-holiday, and seems to have a pretty imaginative and varied list.

For example this is the selection for books set in Spain

Links for the Next Meeting - Two Agatha Christie books

Five Little Pigs reviewed at Good Reads

& on the main Agatha Christie site (including background details)

A Murder is Announced at Good Reads

& on the AC site

Plus - Wikipedia articles on Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple

Ex Libris book plates

This is a stunning set of Ex Libris (from the library of...) book plates of the famous.

If you want to get your own, and it's very tempting, this would be a good place to start. (Or you can print off your own at this site here)

Book Group Tours

We've just had an email from this company offering themed literary tours for book groups.

Get in touch with them if you're interested in Agatha Christie, Ian Rankin, JK Rowling or more.

Sadly they don't yet offer James Frey's LA...