Raw Reading Club

Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop.  Florence Green decides to open a bookshop in a small town. What could be more charming? But not everyone wants a bookshop or approves of the books she wants to sell. A timeless gem describing what happens when someone shakes up a community set in its ways. A comic and moving […]

Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop.  Florence Green decides to open a bookshop in a small town. What could be more charming? But not everyone wants a bookshop or approves of the books she wants to sell. A timeless gem describing what happens when someone shakes up a community set in its ways. A comic and moving […]

Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains. Miloš Hama is a young railroad apprentice in wartime Czechoslovakia. But he has other things on his mind besides the war - losing his virginity, gossip at the railway station…  A touching and humorous portrait of a sympathetic character by a Czech master. Raw Reading is a new study group. […]

Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains. Miloš Hama is a young railroad apprentice in wartime Czechoslovakia. But he has other things on his mind besides the war - losing his virginity, gossip at the railway station…  A touching and humorous portrait of a sympathetic character by a Czech master. Raw Reading is a new study group. […]

Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These. Keegan’s novella about the infamous Magdalen laundries and the capacity of an ordinary person for heroism is becoming a Christmas classic alongside Dickens. In a short space, we are taken to a vividly memorable world where we witness the heights and depths of human nature. Raw Reading is a […]

Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These. Keegan’s novella about the infamous Magdalen laundries and the capacity of an ordinary person for heroism is becoming a Christmas classic alongside Dickens. In a short space, we are taken to a vividly memorable world where we witness the heights and depths of human nature. Raw Reading is a […]