BOOK QUIZ 2016

Another successful book quiz with a good turnout. the questions were rather more light-hearted this year and we had a lot of fun. Thanks to Cormac for all his work on the editing. Philippe Marchand's organisation was brilliant as usual and Phil Claringbull excellent as usual as quiz master. Thanks to all the other helpers. We were serenaded by Lawrence McQuire while we were enjoying a post quiz glass of wine. Our friend Maggie who headed a team was her ebullient self (see photo)

Newsletter January 2016

NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2016

 

Let me wish you all a Happy New Year again, I hope you enjoyed the Christmas break and that you have made all kinds of good resolutions !

 

Christmas Party The party was a great success, many, many thanks to Caroline and Michel Grasset for enabling us to hold the party at their lovely house. The food and drink were plentiful, the raffle (with so many prizes) a success too. We made 300 euros which goes immediately to the book fund.

 

Book Quiz  Coming up soon, 5th of February at the usual venue ; Espace Martin Luther King 27 Bd Louis Blanc. The doors open at 5.30pm which will give you time to have a glass in hand before the start of the quiz at 6.15. Try and come on time so that we can start on time and have time left over for a bit of socialising after the quiz.

Please put 5 euros per person into a discrete envelope and hand it in on arrival  (the money goes towards expenses for the drinks and nibbles, anything left over goes into the book budget).

 

Party and AGM  11th June for FOAL members It’s a bit early to talk about this but you can pencil the date into your diaries (yes, we are having a party again thanks to our friend Françoise Sorro who is kindly letting us hold it in her lovely garden)

 

Dues: Are dribbling in, you still have 15 days before the end of January to send a cheque (25 euros or 40 if you wish to be a benefactor) made out to Foal to : Mike Davison 13 rue de la Paix 34130 St Aunès. We have harmonised dues so that they are now paid at the beginning of the calendar year

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

AVery Happy New Year to you all, may 2016 bring you Health, Wealth and Happiness
 (and permanent premises for Foal!)

The new catalogue (Alphabetical Order) is now online. To download it, just click Here.
Also available : Author Alpha Order by Title Here.

Click on “télécharger vers navigateur” (download to browser) and then on “ouvrir”

NEW BOOKS NOVEMBER 2015

The new books arrive at the Library on Thursday 12 November 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

·        2^nd 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