“The Essex earth had bucked as if trying to shake off all its towns and villages; for twenty
seconds, no more, a series of convulsions that paused once as if breath were being drawn and then
began again.”
This week's book is The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic
American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious Third Force.
As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign
correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why:
for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated ?
This week's book is The Quiet American by Graham Greene and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
As we're coming to the end of our reading list, we'll be pitching books at the meeting. You may like to consider the unread books list and the unreadable books list.