Books of the Month
Notes
From an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Published by Harper Perennial in 2008
Rachel Kelly, a troubled pregnant young woman,
is rescued by mild-manned Quaker Anthony Middleton, and brought to live
at his family home in Penzance. Here she has four children and a series
of breakdowns while becoming a critically acclaimed abstract artist. Rachel
is bipolar causing her to be both charming and loveable as well as terrible
to those around her.
‘This is an uplifting, immensely empathetic novel,
and Gale's prose, as ever, is as clear and bright as the Cornish light.’
Rachel Hore, The Guardian
Previous Adult Books of the
Month
Blood Red Road
by Moira Young
Published by Marion Lloyd Books 2011
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba's world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on an epic quest to get him back.
Children's Book of the Month
Arthur Quinn and the
World Serpent by Alan Early
Published by Mercier Press, 2011
In this, Book 1 of The Father of Lies Chronicles, hailed by reviewers as the “Irish Percy Jackson” Arthur has no choice but to move to Dublin when his dad is offered a job as an engineer on the Metro tunnel. But making new friends like Will and Ash is a huge help and when they find a mysterious glowing pendant in a river under the city while exploring a dangerous tunnel, life takes a strange twist.