Also available : Title Alphabetical Order Here.
jeudi 29 juin 2017
June catalogue
The new catalogue (Author Alphabetical Order) is now online. To download it, just click Here.
Also available : Title Alphabetical Order Here.
Also available : Title Alphabetical Order Here.
lundi 26 juin 2017
SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2017
We held a most successful AGM
& party in spite of the great heat. The library is doing well, we have
quite a lot of money in the bank so shall be doing some serious ordering in the
autumn.
So please send lists of books or authors you would
like to find in the library. We don’t want to be dogmatic about an author (who
have their ups & downs) but there are additions to be made. Send an email to foal34@gmail.com
but consult the catalogue first. This is easy if you go to the Foal blog
(click on link at the bottom of the email). The lists will be sent to the
Selection Committee.
I have put the above paragraph in italics
because I have copied it from the last Newsletter. I have had practically no
feedback, only from the Bookchat members. I do sometimes wonder if the
newsletter is read…….
SUMMER OPENING
We shall be open on Saturday
1st July with a Grand Book Sale
Wednesday 5th
Wednesday 12th
Wednesday 19th
Saturday 22nd
Then we shall be closed until
2nd September from when we shall be open as usual (1st & 3rd
Saturday & every Wednesday)
You are allowed to take out
more books for your summer reading (6 per person), & you will need to leave a guarantee deposit
in the form of a cheque for 60 euros made out to FOAL (we will, of course, not
cash this & give it back on return of books)
HAVE A SUPER SUMMER
I WILL BE POSTING PHOTOS OF
AGM ON FACEBOOK & BLOG
The following books are on order & will be in the library before
we close for the summer
Anne Tyler Vinegar Girl
Julian Barnes The Noise of Time
Damien Lewis Churchill’s Ministry of
Ungentlemanly Warfare
Nicci French Saturday Requiem
Harlan Coben Fool me Once
Philippa Gregory The Taming of the Queen
S J Parris Conspiricy
W Shaw The Birdwatcher
Dennis Lehane Live by Night
Camilla Lackberg The Ice Child
Georges Mikes English humour for
Beginners
Mary Higgins Clark As Time goes by
Hilary Mantell Wolf Hall (replacement)
C.J. Sansom Revelation
Alan Judd Deep Blue
Maria Lewycka The
Lubetkin Legacy PB 2016
GF
Tana French The
Likeness PB 2008
Crime
Alison Weir The Lady
Elizabeth PB 2008
Historical Fiction
John Harvey Darkness & Light PB
2006 Thriller
Amitar Ghosh Sea of Poppies PB 2008
Historical fiction Trilogy
Tash Aw The Harmony Silk
Factory PB 2005 Historical fiction
D Moggach The Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel PB 2005 GF
A Doerr All the light we cannot see PB 2014
Historical Fiction
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier PB 1915 GF
W Boyd Brazzaville Beach PB 1990 GF
G Orwell Down & out in London
& Paris PB 1933
NF
Robert Stone Outerbridge Reach PB 1992 Adventure
GF
Adeline Yen Mah Falling Leaves PB 1997
Historical Memoir
Marilynne Robinson Gilead PB 2004
GF Literary
A McCall Smith Love over Scotland PB 2006
GF
A McCall Smith Sunday Philosophy Club PB
2004 GF
A McCall Smith N° 1 Ladies Dectective agency PB
1998 Crime
Sue Grafton V is for Vengeance PB 2011 Crime
Sue Grafton U is for Undertow HB 2009
Crime
Lee Child Never go back PB 2013 Crime
José Saramago Blindness PB
GF 1997 GF
Owen Sheers I saw a man PB 2015 Crime
Owen Sheers Resistance PB 2007 Crime
Tana French The Trespasser PB 2016
Crime
Harlan Coben Missing you PB
2014 Crime
samedi 20 mai 2017
FOAL'S AGM & SUMMER PARTY
AGM
The AGM & party will be held on Saturday 24th June starting at
11am
FOOD
Would
you please send an email to Caroline Grasset who has kindly offered
to coordinate your offerings. Let her know what you will be bringing (sweet or
savoury). Please send her the info before 10th June. We may need to have a cut
off for numbers depending on how many of you sign up (40 maximum), I suggest
you email Caroline fast.
FOAL
will be providing the drinks.
HOW
TO GET TO VENUE
To get to the venue which is a large garden
and swimming pool kindly provided by Françoise Sorro : Rue des Grèzes is a
street just opposite Celleneuve. To get to the Rue des Grezes the best thing is
to take l'avenue de la Liberté and follow the direction La Paillade / Millau.
You go past le Géant Casino which is on the right (going towards Millau). Keep
on going a little further but you cannot turn left when you see the Lidl. You
need to turn right as if you were entering Celleneuve to be able to cross
l'Avenue de la Liberté. There is a sort of half circle that enables you to do
this. The Lidl is just on the corner. You go up this road and Françoise Sorro’s
house is N° 256 It has a white gate.
Bus n°7 direction La Martelle,
get off on the last stop but one and the stop is practically in front of the
house
NEW BOOKS MAY 2017
ANOTHER INTERESTING SELECTION
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout GF
Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanghag Indian novel
House of Names Colm Toibin
Historical fiction
The Intrusions Stav Sherez
Thriller
Dissolution- CJ
Sansom Historical crime (Shardlake, we now have the whole series in
library)
Dark Fire CJ Sansom Historical crime
mercredi 5 avril 2017
Recent donations & some more new books
These books which have been added to the collection are in no particular order.
DONATIONS
Jonathan Littell The
Kindly Ones PB 2009 Historical F
Sarah Perry The
Essex Serpent 2016
Patricia
Highsmith A Suspension of Mercy 1965 PB Thriller
Sebastian
Faulkes A possible Life 2012
HB General fiction
Emma
Donaghue Life Mask
2004 HB GF
Ben
Elton The First Casualty
2005 PB GF
Mick
Hume Trigger Warning 2015
PB Non fiction
Joshua
Ferris Then we came to the end 2007
PB GF
Margaret
Drabble The Seven Sisters 2002
PB
Alison
Lurie The truth about Lorin Jones 1988 PB GF
Antony
Doerr All the light we cannot
see 2014 PB GF
Aldous
Huxley Eyeless in Gaza 1936
5 PB GF
Tobias Hill The Love of Stones 2001
PB Thriller
Tan Twan Eng The Garden of evening mists 2012
HB GF
Viet Thanh
Nguyen The Sympathiser 2015 PB
Espionage
Fiona Neill The Good Girl 2015
PB Thriller
Nick Hornby Juliet Naked PB
2009 GF
John LeCarré
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy 1974 HB Espionage
G.d’Arcy
Wood Tambora 2014
PB Non fiction
NEW BOOKS
Carlos Ruiz
Zafon Marina 2013
PB GF
Jo Nesbo The Redeemer 2005 PB Thriller
Jo Nesbo Cockroaches
2013
PB Thriller (we now have all the
Harry Hole books in Library, you will find a document there which gives you the order of the books)
jeudi 9 mars 2017
NEWSLETTER MARCH 2017
NEWSLETTER MARCH 2017
The library is going strong
in our new premises, 25 new members since the Grand Opening on November 5th
& counting. We are feathering our nest with various purchases (vacuum
cleaner/steamer to keep the place clean, book stands for better presentation of
selected books, new boxes for the book sale for easier handling, etc.) As our
finances are flourishing at the moment we want to do some « back ordering » by which we mean either earlier books of authors you
like or an addition to an incomplete series
(for example we have just ordered « The Shadow of the
Wind » the 1st volume of Carlos
Ruiz Zafon’s brilliant trilogy, « The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. We
already have the other two). Please send lists of books or authors you would
like to find in the library. We don’t want to be dogmatic about an author (who
have their ups & downs) but there are additions to be made. Send an email to foal34@gmail.com but consult
the catalogue first. This is easy if you go to the Foal blog (click on link at
the bottom of the email). The lists will be sent to the Selection Committee.
Speaking of which, we think it would be a good idea to invite interested
members to a book choosing session (the next one will be held sometime in
April) We will do this on an alphabetical order, rota basis. Email to same
address if you wish to join a session. (this involves quite a lot of work,
perusal of catalogue & log book to learn about readers’ tastes, searching
for reviews from various publications, etc.)
We would like you to send a
list to foal34@gmail.com before bringing books to donate to the library. You
obviously have some interesting books to donate which can either be added to
the collection or go into the book sale BUT we are also confronted with books
that have fallen into the bath or are falling apart & too often, chestnuts
that we are then encumbered with. So PLEASE, lists from now on. We can no
longer accept spontaneous offerings.
Two of our members (Liz
Davison & Susannah Hill) have kindly volunteered to hold English
conversation sessions (dates in
library). This is becoming popular & has allowed us to glean a new member
or two & give something back to the community. We might need another
volunteer next year as Susannah will be returning to England in the autumn.
Crèches
We would love to see children
sitting on the carpets leafing through our large collection of children’s books
(which we have thanks to donations). We came up with the idea of visiting
crèches to tell them about the library & I also asked for an appointment at
City Hall to meet the person in charge of such things. She were really interested
& sent out the information. Our friend Kath Joly has already visited two
crèches, taking along a few books from the children’s collection & doing a
little presentation. We hope this will bring along some interested parents with
their children.
jeudi 2 mars 2017
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