January reading list

Legal eagles

Chester Library Reading Group

January Meetings –

Thursday 23^rd    5.30pm  and Tuesday 28^th    1pm

Recommended Read

Defending Jacob  (12 copies)

William Landay

(The son of an assistant DA in Boston is arrested for the stabbing of a classmate.)

Other Reads

A time to kill (15 copies)

John Grisham

(Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his child but when extremists outside Clanton, USA  hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.)

Any “Rumpole of the Bailey” title  (6 different copies)

John Mortimer

(Rumpole enjoys the simple pleasure of defending his clients at the Old Bailey. His skill at defending his clients is legendary among the criminal classes. )

The wrong man (6 copies)

 David Ellis

(.'There's a race against the clock, an assassin called Gin Rummy and courtroom scenes that won't have you getting up to make a cup of tea' Guardian.)

December reading list

That’s a fact….

Chester Library Reading Group

December 2013   Meetings –

Thursday 19^th      5.30pm  and Tuesday 17^th    1pm

YOUR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR.

Which non-fiction title has made the biggest impression on you in 2013?

If you haven’t already read one, is there a title you keep meaning to read……..?    Why?

Can you read it before this last 2013 session?

November reading list

Inside & outside……life with disability

Chester Library Reading Group

November   Meetings –

Thursday 2^1st      5.30pm  and Tuesday 26^th    1pm

Recommended Read

Grace Williams says it loud (fiction)   52 copies

Emma Henderson

(Grace Williams, born 1947, is a spastic and a mental defective – that's what they called her at the Briar Mental Institute, where she was sent to live when she was 11. Emma Henderson's first novel is Grace's story, suggested by the life in care of Henderson's own sister.)

Other Reads

Wonder  (fiction)   20 copies

R.J. Palacio

('My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds.)

The man who mistook his wife for a hat (non-fiction) 8 copies

 Oliver Sacks

(Oliver Sacks has become the world’s best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.)

A day in the life of Joe Egg (play)    14 copies

Peter Nichols

(“The content of the play - a small family in the 70s with a mentally, and physically, disabled child - does not seem that entertaining at first, yet the characters witty and amusing ways of coping with their lives really is something to witness.”)

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