ARA City Radio Book Club Episode 1 Marina ARA City Radio

For this podcast, I've chosen the best titles that we've read together in the last year as a bookclub. I've done a brief summary of each one and given some suggestions that you can revisit this summer in case you missed any.

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In this Episode, we summarise our May Bookclub meeting where we discussed The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley and The Ride: The Jeffrey Curley Murder and It's Aftermath by Brian MacQuarrie.

Two very different books but both captured readers attentions especially the true story of the Jeffrey Curley case.

ARA City Bookclub is a podcast presented by Marina Lai that reflects the interests of many of our listeners as well as those who attend our monthly bookclub meetings. To join the meetings and sign up for the newsletter, please e-mail marinalai.lux@gmail.com

In this episode we talk about, author James Leader joins us to discuss his novel The Venus Zone. It is the author's third novel and has won the Luxembourg Literary Prize 2016.

In this episode, I'm joined by our very own bookclub member Shehzar Doja who is a fantastic poet. He talks to us about his new poetry collection which has received raving reviews and we also talk about the two books which our bookclub loved in the last meeting.

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

Don't forget to get your copy of Shehzar's poetry collection called Drift, at Chapter One or Book Loft now!!!

We can’t thank you enough for your ongoing support during the year, whether you volunteered to present a book, showed up to support fellow members or simply read the book of the month, you’ve all helped to get this book club off the ground.


In 2017, we hope to bring you more author appearances, more book club benefits and more books recommendations! We’d love your suggestions and feedback, as well as more volunteers for book presentations, so get in touch: marinalai.lux@gmail.com

In this month's ARA City Bookclub, I discuss two books which could inspire you and challenge you to look at life differently!

Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant' is a beautiful fable about memory and loss. Ishiguro is a well known British writer who wrote Never Let Me Go.

Mitch Albom's 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' is a short and poignant book which really makes you think. The main protagonist Eddie dies at age 83 and he thinks his life has had no meaning, until he meets five people in heaven...