LBCDystopia’s next read on 22nd July @crowdoffavours – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

A date for your diary! LBCDystopia's next read on 22nd July starting from 6:30pm Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro see goodreads for more information - here

The Leeds Big Bookend Premiere of Drink with a Chimp and Festival Launch Party

The Leeds Big Bookend Premiere of Drink with a Chimp and Festival Launch Party, Thursday 4th June 2015 Join us from 2nd-10th June as we map Leeds.www.bigbookend.co.uk Have you ever made a monkey of yourself? A new play from Common Chorus Common Chorus’ Drink With a Chimp is a new play about one woman’s struggle with addiction and her journey to recovery. … Continue reading The Leeds Big Bookend Premiere of Drink with a Chimp and Festival Launch Party

LBC 3 Reads – Date Change – PLEASE NOTE

#LBC3Reads Cafe 164 Date:  *22nd of August 2015* Time:  11am - 1pm Address: Unit 2 Munro House, Duke St, Leeds LS9 8AG   Our Choice I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS MAYA ANGELOU BLURB (from Amazon) Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the … Continue reading LBC 3 Reads – Date Change – PLEASE NOTE

LBCWhiteswan picks @whiteswanleeds with @leedsbookclub

14th June 2015 – Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 12th July  2015 – Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch –  Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 9th August 2015 – Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

Books unpicked for LBCWhiteSwan

The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell A Change Of Climate by Hilary Mantel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Station Eleven  by Emily St. John Mandel x2 The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton The Book About Blanche and … Continue reading Books unpicked for LBCWhiteSwan

World Book Night April 23rd 2015

LBCWhiteSwan 6pm tonight @whiteswanleeds

LBCWhiteSwan tonight at 6pm discussing The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland at The White Swan 5 Swan Street, City Centre, Leeds LS1 6LG And bring your book choices so we can pick July and August!!!

May Book Club meetings

LBC OUTLAWS  6th May 2015 – I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim #1)  – Terry Hayes LBC WHITE SWAN  10th May 2015 – The Owl Killers – Karen Maitland LBC MEDUSA 13th May 2015 – Carte Blanche – Jeffrey Deaver LBC 3 READS 16th May 2015 – Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin LBC PUFFINS 20th May  – Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark … Continue reading May Book Club meetings

Severus Snape – his chronology

9th January 1960 – 2nd May 1998   And then read this as a reality check - Nerds Doing Stuff - Snape is not a good guy

Helen’s Roald Dahl challenge book 04 – The Twits

About the book How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But … Continue reading Helen’s Roald Dahl challenge book 04 – The Twits