happy new year!
even though it’s a bit early for new year’s greetings, we are thinking ahead to reading over the holidays and gathering in the new year to hear from our latest author.
join us on monday january 24 for lunch before joining sarah winman (who will be in the UK) to talk about her new book, ‘still life’. for tickets and details, click here
“There are not enough superlatives to contain the magnitude and beauty of this novel. It explores the very foundations of the meaning of family; is it really a collective gene pool or does the heart of family mean something else entirely?
Besides being a story of ordinary lives surrounded by extraordinary art, it manages to be a short, extremely entertaining encyclopaedia of Italian, and in particular Florentine, art history.”
“...I felt like I could’ve packed my bag and taken off for Italy myself after reading this, although none of us can right now, but it makes this book almost that more special. It’s perfect for this moment in time and I found myself quite content escaping into this book, exploring Italy, the Tuscan hills, the Florentine piazzas, the art, food and language.”
“Sentence after sentence, character by character, “Still Life” becomes poetry.”