The aldeburgh bookshop Book Club
We meet on the second Monday of the month, in the shop. The Book Club is open to all - so feel free to come along. No prior book club experience necessary.
December 2024
Monday 9th December 6pm
In a Lonely Place
Dorothy B. Hughes
Paperback, £8.99 (Special Book Club price)
Los Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ... Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A.
after the war, looking for a new life. But the city is gripped by fear of a murderer in its midst. Dix, however, is not scared.
And when he bumps into his old friend Brub, now a detective on the trail of the culprit, he is excited to follow the police's progress. A dark and terrible truth is revealed, in a noir novel like no other.
This new edition from the Penguin Modern Classic Crime and Espionage Series. Dorothy B. Hughes was acclaimed for her hard-boiled noir crime novels. This one was made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart in 1950.
November 2024
Monday 11th November at 6 pm
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paperback, £8.99 (Special Book Club price)
Discussion at our book club on Enter Ghost last night led, rather surprisingly, to mention of this novel and several of us admitted that we hadn't read it, so we've chosen this for November which gives us plenty of time to read it.
It is acknowledged as one of the great novels of the nineteenth century and we are very much looking forward to it.