Happy New Year!
Hannah's cleaned it all out and we've stocked it with some of our most favourite books from the past year...and by the 31st of December they could all belong to YOU!
Each time you come in you may enter again, so maybe you should space out your Christmas shopping...
Paul Torday News
Our favourite go-to guy for a modern take on the English crumbling classes and the quirky and downright weird folk that populate them, Paul Torday, not only has a new book out this month - The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall - but his first, excellent novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen will soon be in cinemas as a brilliant new film starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt at Kristin Scott Thomas.
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall
Hartlepool Hall has been in Ed's family for generations - but is that about to change and who is the mysterious Lady Alice? Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he must return to his ancestral seat, Hartlepool Hall. On his return, he discovers that his father has left him, along with the house, a seven million pound tax bill, two massive overdrafts, an 80-year-old butler and a vast country estate that is creaking at the seams. Not only that, but there is a strange woman in residence - Lady Alice - who seems to have made herself very much at home. With the debts mounting, it seems that Ed's only recourse is to turn to his friend Annabel's new boyfriend, a property developer who plans to turn Hartlepool Hall into luxury flats and a golf course. But can Ed save his inheritance without such a drastic move. And is Lady Alice really the person she claims to be?
Events
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Bookclub at The Sun Bookshop
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, winner of the 2011 Booker Prize. We will meet on Wednesday 25 January at Cornershop.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.
The bookclub book is always available at a special 10% bookclub discount in the month leading up.
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Younger Sun Bookclubs
The Teen (age 9+) and YA (13+) bookclubs have both wound down for the year, but will be back in 2012. If you love books and would enjoy a lively and friendly group discussion then come along. The bookclub books are available at the Younger Sun with a very special 20% discount in the month leading up to bookclub.
