mercredi 28 octobre 2015

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE

The prizes (hard work on the part of the board members) are coming in thick and fast.
The RAFFLE is currently one of our main ways to raise funds (we don't have a permanent Book Sale at the moment due to lack of space). The meney raised goes straight to the purchase of new books.
If you would like to reserve tickets (5 for 5 euros and 10 for 8 euros) send an email to foal@dbmail.com

PRIZES TO DATE

·        3 bottles of wine from the Jonathan James vineyard
·        A manucure in a very nice beauty parlour
·        Voucher for a meal at the Beehive
·        Voucher for 30 euros at the FNAC
·        Tea for two at the Sisters café
·        2nd tea for two at Sisters’ Café
·        Voucher for a lunchtime meal at Le Petit Bistrot
·        A very pretty necklace (modern)
·        Voucher Bookshop
·        6 bottles of delicious wine from a local producer : Domaine de Causses Lattes
·        Cream tea for two at B’Cosse
·        Cashmere and silk scarf

NEW BOOKS SOON IN THE LIBRARY November 2015

These new books will be coming soon. As usual, we are at the cutting edge of what is going on in the literary world


NON FICTION

Bill Bryson                                         The Road to Little Drippling

Thomas Harding                                The House by the Lake

David Lodge                                     Quite a good time to be born : a Memoir 1935-1975

Janice Nimura                                    Daughters of the Samurai


FICTION

William Boyd                                    Sweet Caress  Historical

Charles Belfoure                                The House of Thieves  Suspense

Lissa Evans                                        Crooked Heart   Dark humour

Jonathon Frazen                                 Purity  Political fiction

Robert Galbraith                                Career of Evil  Crime fiction

Robert Harris                                     Dictator  Historical

A Indridason                                     Oblivion  Thriller

David Lagercrantz                             The Girl in the Spider’s Web  Thriller

Allan Massie                                      The Bordeaux Quartet  (1st three paperbacks, the most recent ‘End Games in Bordeaux’ hardback) The 1st three are : Death in Bordeaux, Dark summer in Bordeaux ; Cold winter in Bordeaux   Crime

Peter Nichols                                     The Rocks   Family life

Edna O’Brian                                    The Little Red Chairs  Contempory fiction

Ian Rankin                                         Even dogs in the Wild   Crime

Sunjeer Sahota                                   The Year of the Runaways   Literary fiction