Ann and Samuel Charters visited us on September 8 2011 at the English Bookshop in Gamla Stan Stockholm and held the first of two performances of Beat Thing! – a performance/reading of Beat literature with the assistance of Björn Lundqvist on the bass. Christer from the bookshop presented.
The program was:
Beat Thing Looms Up by David Meltzer
Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
Mad Sonnet 13 for Allen Ginsberg by Michael McClure
UPPSALA The Uppsala English Bookshop Svartbäcksgatan 19 753 32 Uppsala Tel 018-10 05 10 uppsala@bookshop.se
STOCKHOLM The English Bookshop Södermannagatan 22 116 23 Stockholm Tel 08-790 55 10 stockholm@bookshop.se
GÖTEBORG The English Bookshop Kungsgatan 19 411 19 Göteborg Tel 031-45 55 10 goteborg@bookshop.se
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Modern Fiction Book of the Month – October 2024
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he – mostly – stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he’s told, and his future is lit with promise. But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same – the same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs, the same fathers and brothers missing… One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone.
Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles. // Discuss in the Fiction reading group // Subscribe to the book-of-the-month!
How to put a positive spin on a murder mystery... What happens when a ghostwriter for the rich and famous lands the ultimate gig: writing the memoir of a disgraced presidential candidate? Our witty, nosy narrator arrives at a secluded estate to meet Dorothy Gibson, the fallen political star everyone’s talking about. But when a neighbor turns up dead, the ghostwriter finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery she never saw coming. Add in a secret investigation, a suspiciously handsome man, and a plot twist no one expected – and suddenly, the story she’s writing becomes her own.
Perfect for fans of Knives Out and Agatha Christie, this clever, twisty mystery is full of surprises. // Discuss in the Crime reading group in Göteborg // Subscribe to the book-of-the-month!
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