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SUMMARY:Books and book reading - We begin at the end by Chris Whitaker
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years ago\, Vincent King became a killer. He’s back in his hometown of Cape Haven\, California after being released from Prison. \nNot everyone is glad to see him.\, including Star Radley\, his ex-girlfriend\, and sister of the girl he killed. \nStar has a thirteen-year-old daughter\, Duchess\, who is part-carer\, part-protector to both Robin her younger brother and her deeply troubled mother. In trying to protect Star\, Duchess unknowingly sets off a chain of events that will have tragic consequences for her family and the whole town. \nMurder\, revenge\, retribution. How can we escape the past\, when it seems doomed to repeat itself? \nImage –  Aerial shot of Williams city center in Arizona\, a shot of the cityscape wirestock from Freepik
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-we-begin-at-the-end-by-chris-whitaker/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260605T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260605T120000
DTSTAMP:20260127T155704Z
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UID:10004713-1780655400-1780660800@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Famished Road by Ben Okri
DESCRIPTION:Azaro\, is a spirit child\, who in many traditions of Nigeria exists between life and death. Born into a difficult world\, Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment\, where there is no suffering\, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it\, endure it\, know it and love it. This is his story. \nImage – Happy boy smiling from Freepik
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-the-famished-road-by-ben-okri/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T120000
DTSTAMP:20260127T155613Z
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SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The single ladies of Jacaranda retirement village by Joanna Nell
DESCRIPTION:It’s never too late to grow old disgracefully… \nPeggy Smart is a 79-year-old pensioner whose life revolves around appointments with her Doctor and aqua aerobics. The highlight of her day is watching her neighbour Brian head out for his morning swim. \nBrian is treasurer of the Residents’ Committee and one of the few eligible men in the village. She dreams about inviting him to an intimate dinner. But he’s an educated man\, a chartered accountant no less\, why would he look twice at Peggy? She’s a woman of a certain age and fears she’s become invisible\, even to men in their eighties. \nThen by chance she bumps into an old school friend she hasn’t seen in fifty years – the glamorous fashionista Angie Valentine. This sets Peggy on an unexpected journey of self-discovery. Can she channel her ‘inner Helen Mirren’ and find love and friendship in her twilight years? \nImage – Jacaranda flower By João Medeiros – Jacaranda cuspidifolia\, from wikemedia
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-the-single-ladies-of-jacaranda-retirement-village/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260410T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T113416Z
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SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the April meeting will be on the second Friday of the month\, 10th April\, to avoid Good Friday. \nNineteen-year-old Minou Joubert is in her father’s bookshop in Carcassonne when she receives an anonymous letter. It’s 1562 just before the wars that will tear France apart. Sealed with a distinctive family crest the letter has just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. \nBefore she can decode the message her destiny is changed by a chance meeting with Piet Reydon\, a young Huguenot. He has his own mission and needs her to get out of La Cité alive . . . \nImage – Aerial view of Carcassonne by Chensiyuan on Wikimedia
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-the-burning-chambers-by-kate-mosse/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260306T120000
DTSTAMP:20260127T155345Z
CREATED:20251119T135910Z
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SUMMARY:Books and book reading - Three hours by Rosamund Lupton
DESCRIPTION:In the middle of a blizzard the unthinkable happens in a Somerset school. It’s under siege. \nChildren and teachers hide behind barricades in classrooms\, the library and theatre. The Headmaster has been wounded. Parents gather desperate for news of their children. A police psychiatrist has three short hours to identify the gunman and bring a peaceful end to the siege.. \nImage – Vintage wall clock by tohamina on Freepik
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-three-hours-by-rosamund-lupton/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTAMP:20260127T155229Z
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SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
DESCRIPTION:Investigating the Secret Service is hard. For two years the government’s Monochrome inquiry has produced nothing more than a series of dead ends. The Service has kept what happened in the newly reunified Berlin under wraps for decades\, and intends it to stay that way. \nThen the OTIS file turns up. What classified secrets does it hold? And what damage will it create? All Max Janácek knows is that someone is chasing him through the pitch-dark country lanes and they want him gone. \nWe all have jobs to do in the daylight. It’s what you do in the secret hours that reveals who you really are. \nImage – Silhouette of a man walking in a darkened alleyway\, AI generated by Freepik
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-the-secret-hours-by-mick-herron/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T120000
DTSTAMP:20251119T140007Z
CREATED:20251119T131314Z
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UID:10004708-1764930600-1764936000@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Sea by John Bonville
DESCRIPTION:Art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday\, escaping from a recent loss and dealing with a distant trauma. \nHe met the Grace family during that childhood holiday. Mr and Mrs Grace were unlike any adults he had met before but their children\, twins Myles and Chloe\, most fascinated him. He got to know them very well but what happened next haunted him for the rest of his life\, and shaped everything that followed. \nImage – Sunset over the sea by Janoon028 on Freepik
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-the-sea-by-john-banville/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251003T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251003T120000
DTSTAMP:20250830T075053Z
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UID:10004144-1759487400-1759492800@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - Kim Jiyoung\, born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
DESCRIPTION:Kim Jiyoung\, Born 1982 is the story of a young woman born in Korea towards the end of the twentieth century. It raises questions about endemic prejudice and oppression that are relevant to everyone. Described as ‘riveting\, original and uncompromising’\, and the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.  \nKim Jiyoung is born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy\, made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own\, preyed upon by male teachers at school and blamed by her father when she is harassed late at night. \nShe is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships\, a model employee who is overlooked for promotion and a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. \nShe starts acting strangely\, is depressed and mad. Above all she is her own woman\, she is every woman.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-kim-jiyoung-botn-1982-by-cho-nam-joo/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250905T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250905T120000
DTSTAMP:20250630T102710Z
CREATED:20241118T201336Z
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UID:10004158-1757068200-1757073600@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - Saville by David Storey
DESCRIPTION:Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire\, against the backdrop of war\, an industrialised countryside\, town\, coalmine and village.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-saville-by-david-storey/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250801T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250801T120000
DTSTAMP:20250630T103025Z
CREATED:20241110T154051Z
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UID:10004157-1754044200-1754049600@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - This lovely city by Louise Hare
DESCRIPTION:The war is finally over and in the aftermath of the Blitz England has sent out a call for help from the colonies. Jazz musician Lawrie Matthews answers the call and arriving on the Empire Windrush takes a tiny room in south London lodgings. He falls for the girl next door and pours his heart into his new home and all its possibilities.  \nThen\, one morning\, he makes a terrible discovery. The local community pulls together pointing fingers of blame at those who’d recently been welcomed with open arms. The newest members of the community rapidly become the prime suspects in a tragedy that threatens to tear the city apart. This is a novel about newcomers being made suspects and above all hope.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-this-lovely-city-by-louise-hare/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250704T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250704T120000
DTSTAMP:20250630T102903Z
CREATED:20241110T153125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T102903Z
UID:10004156-1751625000-1751630400@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Gamus
DESCRIPTION:In the early 1960’s equality in the research community was anything but scientific. Elizabeth Zott is a chemist working with an all-male team. Forced to resign\, and needing an income\, she reluctantly signs on to host Supper at six\, a cooking show. \nBut her version is no ordinary cooking show\, hers is fuelled by science and rational commentary. Her approach grabs the attention of the nation\, inspiring a legion of overlooked housewives to dare to change the status quo. One molecule at a time.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-lessons-in-chemistry-by-bonnie-gamus/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250606T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250606T153000
DTSTAMP:20241121T201636Z
CREATED:20241110T151653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241121T201636Z
UID:10004155-1749218400-1749223800@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - Somebody I used to know by Wendy Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Dementia is a cruel and devastating disease and Wendy Mitchell tells it from the sufferer’s side. How can you live your life when everything you know is changing? \nWhat does love mean when you stop being able to recognise your family and friends? \nWendy’s memoir is a tribute to the woman she once was and bravely affirms the woman dementia has seen her become. A book for everyone who knows anyone living with dementia.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-somebody-i-used-to-know-by-wendy-mitchell/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250502T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250502T153000
DTSTAMP:20241121T201517Z
CREATED:20241110T151034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241121T201517Z
UID:10004154-1746194400-1746199800@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The secret diary of Hendrick Groesi 83 1/4 years old by Hendrick Groen and Hester Velmans
DESCRIPTION:At 83 1/4 years Hendrik Groen considers himself old but far from dead and isn’t planning to be any time soon either. His daily walks are shorter and he sees his doctor more than he’d like but thinks that there must be more to life than tea and pot plants.  \nSo he starts writing an exposé of a year in the life of his care home\, including all the ups and downs and his new anarchic Old-But-Not Dead Club. Then\, Eefje moves in\, the woman he has always longed for. He dusts himself down\, grooms his remaining hair and tries to make something of the life he has left with funny\, tender and unexpected consequences\, with hilarious\, tender and devastating consequences.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-the-secret-diary-of-hendrick-groesi-83-1-4-years-old-by-hendrick-groen-and-hester-velmans/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250404T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250404T153000
DTSTAMP:20250408T172158Z
CREATED:20241118T201812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T172158Z
UID:10004159-1743775200-1743780600@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - Holding by Graham Norton
DESCRIPTION:Duneen is a remote Irish village with little drama but the villagers are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn’t always been so overweight; Brid Riordan\, mother of two\, hasn’t always been an alcoholic; and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn’t always felt that her life was a total waste. \nWhen human remains are discovered at an old farm\, and the body is suspected to be Tommy Burke – a former love of Brid and Evelyn – the village’s dark past begins to unravel and a community’s worth of anger\, resentment\, secrets and regret are revealed.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-holding-by-graham-norton/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250307T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250307T153000
DTSTAMP:20241108T085627Z
CREATED:20241107T103021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T085627Z
UID:10004143-1741356000-1741361400@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Gustav Sonata by Rose Treman
DESCRIPTION:Gustav grows up in a small Swiss town\, where Second World War horrors are a distant echo. \nHis father dies mysteriously\, and Emilie\, the mother Gustav adores\, is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Until he meets Anton Gustav’s life is a lonely one \nThey develop an intense and lifelong friendship but Anton doesn’t understand how deeply and irrevocably their lives are entwined until it’s almost too late…
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-19/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250207T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250207T153000
DTSTAMP:20250210T074958Z
CREATED:20241107T102855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T074958Z
UID:10004142-1738936800-1738942200@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
DESCRIPTION:It’s 334 BC and Alexander the Great is just 21 when he and his small army set out to challenge the largest\, most powerful empire in the world – Persia. He and his army march East winning against huge odds and storming  fortresses from the Aegean to India. \nThe other Alexander is Prince of the Macedonian royal house of Lyncestis\, who becomes Alexander the Great’s general and most trusted friend. Torn between friendship and avenging his murdered brothers Alexander of Lyncestis is seen as a rival for the throne by the Persians\, Greeks\, Macedonians. Through the next six years\, his life hangs by a thread through conspiracy and battle for is the Shadow King.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-18/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250103T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250103T153000
DTSTAMP:20241108T084300Z
CREATED:20241107T102736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T084300Z
UID:10004141-1735912800-1735918200@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Maid by Nita Prose
DESCRIPTION:Molly Gray is a maid cleaning the luxury rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel. \nWhen she reaches suite 401 she has a nasty shock\, finding an infamous guest dead in his bed. The mystery is a very messy one with Molly at the heart of things. 
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-17/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241206T153000
DTSTAMP:20241108T083456Z
CREATED:20241107T102605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T083456Z
UID:10004140-1733493600-1733499000@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and book reading - The Seal Woman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
DESCRIPTION:n 1627 pirates raided the Icelandic coast\, kidnapped 400 people and sold them into slavery in Algiers. Among them were a pastor\, his wife\, and their children. \nThe book imagines the story of Asta\, the pastor’s wife\, who uses the stories she’s bought with her from home to help her cope with her losses as she forms a bond with the man who bought her.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-16/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241101T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241101T153000
DTSTAMP:20240303T153039Z
CREATED:20240303T153039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240303T153039Z
UID:10003459-1730469600-1730475000@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading - Autumn by Ali Smith
DESCRIPTION:Daniel is one hundred years old. Elisabeth\, was only born in 1984\, and has her eye firmly on the future. Torn by an historic once-in-a-generation summer the UK is in pieces\, \nLove is won and lost. Hope walks hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll on as always . .
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-autumn-by-ali-smith/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading - The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
DESCRIPTION:In the hills overlooking the war torn streets of Sarajevo snipers lie in wait. Aware that a bullet could hit them at any moment\, the people continue to go about their daily lives as much as they can. Kenan\, has to cross the city to get the basic necessity of water for his family. Dragan\, doesn’t know who he can trust even among his friends and spends his days gripped by fear. And Arrow\, a counter-sniper pushes herself to her limits every day to help her people survive. \nThe book shows how the human spirit is revealed in all its strength and vulnerability when crossing a road can mean risking your life.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-the-cellist-of-sarajevo-by-steven-galloway/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading - Painter of silence by Georgina Harding
DESCRIPTION:A man is found on the steps of a Romanian hospital in the early 1950s. His name is unknown as he is deaf and mute and unable to communicate. Then Safta\, a young nurse gives him some paper and pencils so he can draw. Slowly\, he memories emerge on the page. \nThe man is Augustin\, the son of the cook at the Manor House which was also Safta’s family home. They were born six months apart\, and grew up with a connection that surpassed words. Augustin’s world remained the same while Safta’s expanded to encompass new languages\, society – and one long\, hot summer a fleeting romance \nThen the war came followed by Stalin’s brutal regime and nothing could stay the same..
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-painter-of-silence-by-georgina-harding/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading - Circe by Madeline Miller
DESCRIPTION:A daughter is born in the house of Helios\, Sun God and the mightiest of the Titans. She is named Circe and is a strange child. She isn’t like her parents and is scorned and rejected as a result. She isn’t at home in the world of Gods or mortals and grows up in the shadows. But Circe has a dark power of her own\, she is a witch. Banished to the island of Aiaia when her gift threatens the gods\, she hones her craft\, casting spells\, gathering strange herbs and taming wild animals. \nThose who stand alone are never left in peace for long. She has an unexpected visitor among her island’s guests: Odysseus\, a mortal for whom Circe will risk everything. \nCirce’s tale is a vivid and mesmerizing epic of family rivalry\, love and loss. A defiant woman burning bright through the dark world of men.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-circe-by-madeline-miller/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading - Everything is illuminated by Jonathan Safram Joel
DESCRIPTION:Arriving in the Ukraine a young man clutches a tattered photograph. Fifty years ago a woman saved his grandfather from the Nazis and he’s searching for her. He has some strange helpers in his quest Alex\, a translator who manages to convert English into wierd new forms; an old man who is “blind” and haunted by his memories of the war; and his guide dog\, Sammy Davis Jr\, Jr. What they’re seeking seems elusive and the truth is obscured by time\, language and the horrors of war. \nWhat they eventually discover turns their worlds topsy turvy.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-everything-is-illuminated-by-jonathan-safram-joel/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book reading - The new Mrs Clifton by Elizabeth Buchan
DESCRIPTION:The roots of a sycamore tree had grown around the skeleton of a woman\, aged somewhere between twenty-five and thirty. And she had carried a child . . .’ \nIntelligence Officer Gus Clifton returns to London at the end of the Second World War\, bringing with him Krista. His German wife who he secretly married while in Berlin. For Gus’s sisters Krista is the enemy and his marriage is a terrible betrayal for Nella\, Gus’s loyal fiancée. The three women wonder what hold Krista has over decent\, honourable Gus and they start to ask themselves what they will need to do get her permanently out of their lives.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-15/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book reading - What strange paradise by Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:This beautifully written\, dramatic and moving novel reveals the global refugee crisis from a child’s point of view. \nAnother over-loaded\, poorly equipped and maintained ship sinks under the weight of carrying too-many passengers. Syrians\, Ethiopians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese and Palestinians fleeing untenable lives in their homelands perish leaving only one survivor\, nine-year-old Amir. He is a Syrian boy who is fortunately found by Vänna\, a teenage girl born on the island. She lives with her own sense of homelessness in a place and with people she has grown to disdain. While Vänna and Amir are total strangers without a shared language she decides to do whatever it takes to save him.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-14/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book reading - Harvest by Jim Crace
DESCRIPTION:With the arrival of late summer steals and the gleaning of the final pearls of barley\, a village is threatened. The arrival of three outsiders\, two men and a dangerously charismatic woman\, on the village’s woodland borders sets in motion a series of events that unmakes Walter Thirsk’s village in just one week. The harvest is blackened by smoke and fear\, cruel punishment is handed out to the innocent\, and there are allegations of witchcraft. \nBut there is something more sinister at the heart of Walter’s story\, and he may be the only man left to tell it . . .
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-13/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Operation Mincemeat by Ben McIntyre
DESCRIPTION:In April\, 1943 a fisherman finds the body of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain. This is the start of a train of events that changed the course of the Second World War. \nOperation Mincemeat was a wartime deception – the most successful\, and strangest\, ever attempted. It fooled the Nazi espionage chiefs\, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction\, and saved thousands of lives. All thanks to a secret agent who was different from any spy ever deployed as he was dead. His mission was to convince the Germans that the Allies were planning to invade Greece rather than attack Sicily. \nThis is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill’s intelligence officers and the audacious lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler’s desk.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-12/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240202T160000
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SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading
DESCRIPTION:We meet in a room in Princes Risborough Library and order our books via the library service. Due to current limitations we are restricted to 6 members\, but we do have a couple of vacancies\, so please get in touch if you are interested in joining us.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-11/2024-02-02/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading
DESCRIPTION:We meet in a room in Princes Risborough Library and order our books via the library service. Due to current limitations we are restricted to 6 members\, but we do have a couple of vacancies\, so please get in touch if you are interested in joining us.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-11/2024-01-05/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231201T140000
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UID:10002481-1701439200-1701446400@risboroughu3a.org.uk
SUMMARY:Books and Book Reading
DESCRIPTION:We meet in a room in Princes Risborough Library and order our books via the library service. Due to current limitations we are restricted to 6 members\, but we do have a couple of vacancies\, so please get in touch if you are interested in joining us.
URL:https://risboroughu3a.org.uk/event/books-and-book-reading-11/2023-12-01/
LOCATION:Library\, Bell Street\, Princes Risborough\, HP27 0AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Books and Book Reading
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