Wednesday 5 July 2017, 7.30pm (Plommer House Room A)

We will be reading The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler

“It is 1937. In a matter of months Germany will annex Austria and the storm that has been threatening to engulf the little tobacconist will descend, leaving the lives of Franz, Otto and Professor Freud irredeemably changed. In the tradition of novels such as Fred Uhlman’s classic Reunion, Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room, The Tobacconist tells a deeply moving story of ordinary lives profoundly affected by the Third Reich.”

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Suggestions of titles for future sessions are very welcome. Please send them via the mailing list (details below).

Refreshments will be provided at the meeting and we hope to see you there, but if you are unable to attend, please email your comments and your score to be shared with the Group.

Mailing list

The Wolfson-Reading-Group list is used to share ideas about books for future discussion and to announce forthcoming meetings. You can subscribe to the list (called “wolfson-reading-group”), using either an @cam or other email address, here. Meetings are also advertised once in advance via the wolfson-events mailing list, and are included in the online College Calendar.

WRG Blog

Members are encouraged to use the WRG blog to comment on posts and to generate discussions based on books they are reading. Whether you are reading something which you think others should read (or avoid), or you’d like to specifically recommend a book for the Reading Group, all are urged to engage with the blog and to write up reviews for inclusion. Posts which you have written and would like to see published on the blog can be emailed to wolfsonreadinggroup@gmail.com. Any problems or suggestions can also be emailed to this address.