St Paul's Green

18 August 2010 (13:00 ) - 18 August 2010 (14:00 )

I LOVE BOOKS Club - August

All book lovers in Hammersmith are invited to join us this summer in reading or re-reading a particular title, which is then thrown open to everyone for discussion. The club is FREE and open to everyone.

SECOND SESSION
Date: Wednesday, August 18
Time:1- 2 pm
Place: St Paul's Green
Title: Stone's Fall, Iain Pears

In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since "An Instance of the Fingerpost", Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, "Stone's Fall" is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home. Chronologically, it goes backwards - London in 1909, then Paris in 1890, and finally Venice in 1867 - and Stone's character and motivation deepen as the book progresses; in the first part he is almost an abstraction, existing only in the memory of those who knew him; in the second he is a character, but only a secondary one; and, in the third he is the narrator of the story. A quest, then, but also a love story and a murder mystery, set against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage and the start of the twentieth century's arms race. Like "Fingerpost", "Stone's Fall" is an intricate and richly satisfying puzzle, completely engaging on many levels, a triumphant return for one of the world's great storytellers.

Please join us for a FREE light lunch and discussion of 'Stone's Fall' by Iain Pears.
RSVP essential. E-mail invites@hammersmithlondon.co.uk or call 02087418157 and claim your FREE copy of 'Stone's Fall'.


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Facilitator: Debby Wale, Reader Development Librarian, Hammersmith Library

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