Mark Haddon

A càrrec de Pasqual Bernat, moderador dels clubs de lectura de la Biblioteca Dos Rius, de la Biblioteca Joan Triadú i del Biblióbús Guilleries; i Mar Vidal, psicòloga clínica del Consorci Hospitalari de Vic. Club de lectura realitzat conjuntament amb les biblioteques de la comarca d'Osona, amb ... (more)motiu del Dia Mundial de la Salut Mental.

Amherst Museum's Museum Book Club is free and open to the public. Please call 716-689-1440, ext. 7716 or email amuseum@roadrunner.com to register.

Tickets £8.50 Come and celebrate the launch of Ox-Tales, four brilliant collections featuring short stories from a star-studded cast of writers including Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Faulks, Helen Fielding, William Boyd, John le Carré, Ian Rankin and Jeanettte Winterson. The books – and stories – are ... (more)themed very loosely on the four elements highlighting different aspects of Oxfam's work: Earth (from land rights to farming): Air (combating climate change), Fire (campaigning for arms control) and Water (safe water and sanitation). The book launch takes place at The Oxford Playhouse on 3rd July with Ox-Tales authors Mark Haddon, Joanna Trollope and Nicholas Shakespeare all reading from their stories and signing books.

Join our Book Club the third saturday of this month as they discuss Mark Haddon's excellent novel, A Spot of Bother.A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon's unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,"
At sixty-one, George Hall is ... (more)settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.
As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.