It was our second session at the Galley Beggars Critical Reading Class moving from contemporary Belfast in Wendy Erskine’s The Benefactors to a modern classic of timeslip fiction, Kindred by Octavia Butler. We started off with Chief Galley Beggar Sam Jordison giving us some biographical background on Butler and about the drafting of the novel Read More
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Catching up with Book Group reads
With our December zoom last week, another year of our Book Group came to an end – we did manage to have two in person meetings sitting in a pub beer garden, until that got too cold. We’ve retreated back to zoom for now, but fingers crossed for the spring. I’ve been going since 2004, Read More
