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?