Le Bookshop, Montpellier

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Book reading - Michael Scott Moore

The venue for the talk on Saturday 4th December is the Bookshop, 8 rue Bras de Fer at 4pm.
There will be a small contribution for expenses, 3 euros (we are paying for Michael Scott Moore's train fare). I will come along with some membership forms and cards so that you can join on the spot.

Vicki Metherell

"Mike, a published novelist and world-class journalist who's written for the Atlantic, Salon, and Spiegel online, has spent the last few years travelling the globe in search of surfing cultures. Not places where Americans have found some good waves and set up a little colony, but places like Gaza, where Israeli and Arab Surfers for Peace, Cuba where boards are hard to come by; Sao Tome, a tiny island off the coast of Africa where the locals have invented their own surfing pastime; and downtown Munich, where, well, Mike can explain. The result of all this has been Sweetness and Blood, a book documenting all of this which has been praised by the New York Times, the Economist and many other publications. You can have a look at Mike's blog; Radio Free Mike at which there are excerpts from the book."

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Programme Décembre 2010

Especially for the holiday season we sell Christmas cards and Christmas crackers!

December 4th, Michael Scott Moore presents “Sweetness and Blood” 4 PM
Come and meet Michael Scott Moore, author of “Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results.” In this brilliantly written travel adventure, journalist and surfer Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations —Gaza, West Africa, North England, Berlin, Bali, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco—to give the reader a folk history of surfing.

December 18th Book Club at 2 PM – “Yellow Blue Tibia” by Adam Roberts
In Russia, the year is 1946 and with the Nazis recently defeated, Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away—and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive
external threat to hold it together—Stalin orders the writers to compose a massively detailed and highly believable story about an alien race poised to invade the earth. The little group of writers gets down to the task and spends months working until new orders come from Moscow to
immediately halt the project. The scientists obey and live their lives until, in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the survivors gather again, because something strange has happened: the story they invented in 1946 is starting to come true.

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Echanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00
Monday/Lundi 6, 13, 20 décembre: anglais-français/French-English
Friday/vendredi 3, 10 décembre: anglais-français/French-English
Friday / vendredi 17 décembre: allemand/espagnol-français
Venez découvrir une large collection de livres au prix d’achat !

Come and discover a large collection of books at purchase prices, just for the Holidays! *

Special Opening hours: Sunday the 19th 1PM to 6PM; Monday the 20th 1PM – 8PM;
21st to 23rd 10AM – 8 PM; 24th 10AM to 6PM.

Horaires spéciales: Dimanche 19 déc. 13h à 18h; lundi 20 13h à 20h;
21 à 23 déc. 10h à 20h ; 24 déc. 10h à 18h.

Le Bookshop will be closed from December 25th until January 3rd
The whole team wishes you a merry Christmas and we hope to see you in 2011!

Le Bookshop sera fermé du 25 décembre au 3 janvier.
Toute l’équipe vous souhaite un joyeux Noël et nous espérons vous revoir en 2011 !



(*à partir du premier décembre – starting December first.)

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Just to clarify, there is no donation for attending Mike's reading, although there will be a box for donations, as well as an opportunity to sign up for FOAL.

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Programme Janvier 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thursday, January 13th from 5.00 pm to 6.15 pm meet Sam Taylor, published author.
Join us for an evening talk-and-discussion meeting with SAM TAYLOR on the working life of an active author. A former journalist with the UK’s Observer newspaper, Sam Taylor quit his job in 2001 and moved with his wife and children to the Midi-Pyrénées, where he is now a full-time writer, literary translator and creative-writing tutor. His three novels, The Republic of Trees, The Amnesiac, and The Island at the End of the World, are genre-bending examples of literary fiction: a coming-of-age fairytale/horror story; an existential detective story; and a postapocalyptic
mystery. They have been widely praised and have been translated into nine languages. His talk will provide insights into the genesis of novels and of the processes and endeavors which nurture effective fiction writing.

Friday, January 14th from 10.00 AM to 1 PM – Free Writing Workshop with Sam Taylor – on reservation only!
Besides writing for a living Sam Taylor runs creative-writing workshops and he will be conducting be a half-day demonstration workshop on creative writing for authors (committed or embryonic) in Montpellier on Friday 14th January. This workshop will run from 10 am to 1 pm. To participate in this demonstration workshop contact: Edwin Hill on edwinhill@hotmail.com or Philip Marchand on mishex@wanadoo.fr

Saturday January 22nd at 2 PM Book Club: “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” by Heidi Durrow
Inspired by a true story of a mother's twisted love, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky paints the haunting portrait of a young orphan's quest for truth. A bizarre mystery surrounding a family tragedy where she loses both parents forms the centerpiece of Rachel's struggle as an astonishingly beautiful mixedrace child in a mostly black community. As terrible secrets begin to emerge, Rachel learns to swallow her grief and construct her self-image in a world that wants to see her as either Black or White.

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM
Monday/Lundi 10, 17, 24, 31 janvier: anglais-français/French-English
Friday/vendredi 7, 14, 21 janvier: anglais-français/French-English
Friday / vendredi 28 janvier: allemand/espagnol-français

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Nous vous informons que nous serons fermés le lundi de Pâques.

A bientôt,


L’équipe du Bookshop

8 rue du Bras de Fer
34000 Montpellier
FRANCE

Tel/Fax: +33 (0)4 67 66 22 90
www.lebookshop.com

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Programme mai 2011

Conversation exchanges

Anglais/français le lundi - 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 mai 17h à 19h
Anglais/français le vendredi 6, 13 et 20 mai de 17h à 19h
Allemand/français le vendredi 27 mai de 17h à 19h

May 14th, 2 PM - language games

Come and work on your French language skills with certified FLE (Français Langue Étrangère) teacher Carole Hus.
By means of several fun games you’ll get to work on your speaking and listening skills! Please make a reservation by email or by phone.

Comédie du Livre 2011 – 27, 28 et 29 mai de 10h à 19h

La Comédie du Livre 2011 mettra à l’honneur les écrivains et créateurs de langue allemande. Afin de célébrer les cinquante ans des liens qui unissent la ville et l’université de Montpellier à celles de Heidelberg, l’Allemagne en sera le pays invité. Mais afin de rendre justice à l’incroyable diversité de la création de la langue allemande, la Comédie du Livre souhaite aussi mettre à l’honneur toutes celles et ceux, Autrichiens, Suisses, Tchèques, Turcs et Kurdes, qui contribuent à faire des lettres de langue allemande parmi les plus inventives et enthousiasmantes de ce début de XXIe siècle !

Le Bookshop sera présent sur la Place de La Comédie avec un stand et des invités. Venez nous retrouver pour
rencontrer nos invités : Sam Taylor, Amanda Hodgkinson, Danielle Trussoni, Nikolai Grozni et Stephen Clarke !

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Programme juin 2011

Saturday June 25th at 2 PM Book Club: “The Howling Miller” by Arto M Paasilinna

Come and join the discussion (in English) at our monthly book club!
Gunnar Huttunen arrives in North Finland after the war and buys a dilapidated mill. Despite being a decent and hard-working Finn, he is also an outsider and an eccentric: prone to mood swings, black depression, high elation, and a general lack of decorum. He puts on performances at the mill for local children at which he specializes in imitating animals and
making fun of the village notables. Already prejudiced against him by his jibes, the villagers reserve most ire for the howling which Huttunen indulges in at night, which the local dogs join in delirious chorus. Passionate and outraged by his treatment at the hands of the villagers, it is not long before the accident-prone miller finds that his situation soon spirals out of control...Paasilinna's riotous book revels in a black, rebellious, deadpan humor. It is also a fable about the eternal struggle between freedom and repressive authority.

Cours d’anglais gratuits par des professeurs formés
Mardi 14, jeudi 16, mardi 28 et mercredi 29 juin entre 13h et 19h, venez participer aux cours d’anglais gratuits donnés par des professeurs anglophones formés. Inscription obligatoire !
Contactez le responsable du program English Language House Training Hugh MacCamley par mail pour tout renseignement et inscription.

ehltcourses2000@gmail.com
Lecture pour enfants

Tous les mercredis de juin il est possible de réserver une lecture pour enfants avec un lecteur anglophone. De 16h à 17h votre enfant peut écouter des histoires et apprendre l’anglais en s’amusant. Cette activité est uniquement sur réservation, contactez nous au 04 67 66 22 90 ou par
e-mail contact@lebookshop.com

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Échanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00
Anglais/français le lundi - 6, 13, 20, 27 juin 17h à 19h
Anglais/français le vendredi 3, 10 et 17 juin de 17h à 19h
Allemand/français le vendredi 24 juin de 17h à 19h

Le Bookshop – librairie anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer
34000 Montpellier
Tel. 04.67.66.22.90 – e-mail : contact@lebookshop.com

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Programme juillet 2011

Cours d’anglais gratuits par des professeurs formés
Mardi 19 juillet de 13h à 17h, jeudi 21 juillet de 16h30 à 18h30, mardi 26 juillet de 13h à 19h et jeudi 28 juillet entre 16h30 et 18h30, venez participer aux cours d’anglais gratuits donnés par des professeurs anglophones formés. Inscription obligatoire !
Contactez Le Bookshop pour les inscriptions :
Par téléphone au 04-67 66 22 90 ou par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com

Saturday July 16th at 2 PM Book Club: “Asylum” by Patrick McGrath
As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...
During the month of August the Book Club will not meet up, but you’re welcome to join us in September, when we’ll be discussing “The Help” by Katheryn Stockett!

Lecture pour enfants
Tous les mercredis de juillet il est possible de s’inscrire à une lecture pour enfants avec un lecteur anglophone. De 16h à 17h votre enfant peut écouter des histoires et apprendre l’anglais en s’amusant. Cette activité est uniquement sur réservation, contactez nous au 04 67 66 22 90
ou par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Échanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00
Anglais/français le lundi - 4, 11, 18, 25 juillet 17h à 19h
Anglais/français le vendredi 8, 15, 22 et 29 juillet de 17h à 19h

Le Bookshop – librairie anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer
34000 Montpellier
Tel. 04.67.66.22.90 – e-mail : contact@lebookshop.com
Horaires : lundi 13h à 19h, mardi à samedi 10h à 19h

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Programme septembre 2011

Saturday September 17th at 2 PM Book Club: “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
Come and join the discussion (in English) at our monthly book club!

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

22-Year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss but despite that her mother will not be happy untill Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her 17th white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that crosses lines and will put them all at risk. All because sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

Cours d’anglais gratuits par des professeurs formés Mardi 30 août de 13h à 17h, jeudi 1 septembre de 16h à 18h30, mardi 6 septembre de 13h à 17h et mercredi 7 septembre de 14h à 16h, venez participer aux cours d’anglais gratuits donnés par des professeurs anglophones formés.

Chaque cours dure une heure, vous pouvez assister à autant de cours que vous voulez dans la limite des places disponibles. Inscription obligatoire,

contactez-nous par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com ou par téléphone au 04.67.66.22.90

Lecture pour enfants

Tous les mercredis il est possible de réserver une lecture pour enfants avec un lecteur anglophone. De 16h à 17h votre enfant peut écouter des histoires et apprendre l’anglais en s’amusant. Cette activité est uniquement sur réservation, contactez nous au 04.67.66.22.90 ou par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Échanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00
Anglais/français le lundi - 5, 12, 19, 26 septembre 17h à 19h
Anglais/français le vendredi 2, 9, 16 et 23 septembre de 17h à 19h
Allemand/français le vendredi 30 septembre de 17h à 19h

Préparez-vous pour la rentrée avec :

Le Bookshop – librairie anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer
34000 Montpellier
Tel. 04.67.66.22.90
e-mail : contact@lebookshop.com

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Programme novembre 2011

Vendredi 25 novembre dans le cadre des « Escapades en Librairies »
lecture de poésies bilingue avec Jean Gelbseiden à 14h30

Venez profiter d’une lecture de poésie des plus grands poètes anglais lus par Jean Gelbseiden de l’association « Les Mots Passants » Pour présenter les librairies indépendantes de Montpellier l’association Coeur de Livre vous invite à nombreuses manifestations littéraires dans toutes les librairies du 25 à 27 novembre.
(Pour le programme regardez au http://www.montpellier.fr/573-agenda-de ... r-ousortir.
htm/viewFileIdtf/14064/v/f/libelle/dossier+parcours+en+librairie.pdf)

Saturday November 26th at 2 PM Book Club:
“Behind the Scenes at the Museum” by Kate Atkinson
Come and join the discussion (in English) at our monthly book club!
“Behind the Scenes at the Museum is the first novel of Kate Atkinson and covers -with a lot of humor- the experiences of Ruby Lennox from a middle-class English family living in York. By interspersing flashbacks with the narrative of Ruby's own life, the book chronicles the lives of four
generations of women from Ruby's great-grandmother Alice to Ruby's mother's failed dreams. The story of Ruby's own life is told in thirteen chapters, all written in the first person, documenting key periods in Ruby's life from 1951 ("Conception" beginning with the words "I exist!") to 1992. In between each chapter are flashbacks that tell the story from the point of view of one of the other (mostly female) members of Ruby's family—including her great-grandmother Alice, her grandmother Nell and her mother Bunty.”

Lecture pour enfants Tous les mercredis il est possible de réserver une lecture pour enfants avec un lecteur anglophone. Entre 16h et 17h votre enfant peut écouter des histoires et apprendre l’anglais en s’amusant. Cette activité est uniquement sur réservation, contactez nous au 04.67.66.22.90 ou par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com
Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Échanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00
Anglais/français le lundi - 7, 14, 21 + 28 novembre 17h à 19h
Anglais/français le vendredi 4, 11 + 18 novembre de 17h à 19h
Allemand/français le vendredi 25 novembre de 17h à 19h

Commandez vos Christmas crackers !
4 Coloris possibles (« Red Ribbons and Holly » « Rainbow –red, blue, orange, purple, metallic» « Jazz Glitter - whitegold » ou “silver with images of 12 Days of Christmas”
Chaque ensemble est vendu dans une boite de 10 crackers de 21cm (8.5”) à 15,90 €.


Le Bookshop – librairie anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer
34000 Montpellier
Tel. 04.67.66.22.90
e-mail : contact@lebookshop.com

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Programme mars 2012

Samedi 10 mars à 14h30 Jeux Linguistiques pour apprendre le français
On Saturday the 10th of March Free language games in French at 2.30 pm animated by Carole Hus, certified French
teacher.

Samedi 24 mars à 14h cercle littéraire: “Shadow of the Titanic” par Andrew Wilson –
discussion en anglais.
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and
children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of
screaming. Then, as the ship sank to the ocean floor and the passengers slowly died from
hypothermia, a deathly silence settled over the sea. Yet the echoes of that night
reverberated through the lives of each of the 705 survivors. Shadow of the Titanic tells
the extraordinary stories of some of those who survived. Although we think we know the
story of the Titanic - the famously unsinkable ship that hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage
from Britain to America in April 1912 - little has been written about what happened to the
survivors after the tragedy. How did the loss of the ship shape the lives of the people who
survived? How did those who were saved feel about those who perished? And how did
they remember that terrible night, in effect a disaster that has been likened to the
destruction of a small town? Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking, Shadow of the Titanic
sheds new light on this enduringly fascinating story, by showing how the disaster continued to shape the lives of a
cross-section of passengers who escaped the sinking ship.

Lecture pour enfants
Tous les mercredis il est possible de réserver une lecture pour enfants avec un lecteur
anglophone. De 16h à 17h votre enfant peut écouter des histoires et apprendre l’anglais en
s’amusant. Cette activité est uniquement sur réservation au plus tard le lundi précédent la
lecture, contactez nous au 04.67.66.22.90 ou par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Echanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00

chaque lundi et vendredi anglais-français de 17h à 19h


Le Bookshop – Librairie Anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer - 340000 Montpellier
Tel./Fax : 04 67 66 22 90 - contact@lebookshop.com - www.lebookshop.com


Happy St Patrick’s Day – Saturday March 17th

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May 2012 Programme


Samedi 19 mai à 14h Book Presentation: “ en anglais.

A word or two with the world’s greatest mime, Marcel Marceau? A chat with Brigitte Bardot? Insights from France’s top business, the French at their own wine-making or gastronomic games?
In a series of highly-entertaining and well package of over sixty features relating to virtually every one his twenty years of living and working there. From the crazed adventures of a real Spiderman to the amazing vision which led to the construction of the Postman’s Palace in the department of the Drôme, A FRENCH AFFAIR leaving you with a taste for more.

Samedi 26 mai à 14h cercle littéraire: “We Need to Talk about Kevin” discussion en anglais.
Eva never really wanted to be a mother— she ended up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday.
Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her actions are responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.


Conversation exchanges Chaque lundi et vendredi anglais Tel./Fax : 04 67 66 22 90

Le Bookshop will be closed on May 1 & 8th and open on May 17th & 28

Visit us at the Comédie du Livre on June 1, 2 & 3, we’ll be on the main stand!!!

Le Bookshop – Librairie Anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer - 340000 Montpellier
- contact@lebookshop.com - www.lebookshop.com
Tel./Fax : 04 67 66 22 90

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Association Coeur de Livres would like to invite you to a literary breakfast with A.L. Kennedy, Ian McDonald or John Harvey!

During this year’s book fair Comédie du Livre 2012 you have the unique opportunity to sign up for a breakfast meeting with three of the authors invited to this year’s book feast. All you have to do is sign up with the organization on 04.67.60.43.11.


June 1st, 9.30 AM : literary breakfast meeting with Alison Louise Kennedy

Known for her implacable humor and keen eye for human emotion, Scottish author/stand-up comedian A.L. Kennedy will be there to chat over breakfast on Friday June 1st. Animated by Jeanette Franklin, director of the French American Center, the meeting will take place at the hotel particulier Baudon de Mauny, and will be in English. (For more information on A.L. Kennedy, or the book fair in general, visit http://www.comediedulivre.montpellier.f ... nnedy.html ).


June 2nd, 9.30 AM : literary breakfast meeting with Ian McDonald

If you’re a Science Fiction fan, then the Saturday meeting with multiple award-winning author Ian McDonald is your cup of tea. With a multitude of publications to his name McDonald seems particularly interested by the paradoxes inherent within the cultures of emerging powers. Animated by Jeanette Franklin, director of the French American Center, the meeting will take place at the hotel particulier Baudon de Mauny, and will be in English. (For more information on Ian McDonald, or the book fair in general, visit http://www.comediedulivre.montpellier.f ... onald.html ).


June 3rd, 9.30 AM : literary breakfast meeting with John Harvey
Come and enjoy a croissant with the versatile author John Harvey, known best for his jazz-influenced thrillers with charismatic Nottingham policeman Charles Resnick. Animated by Jeanette Franklin, director of the French American Center, the meeting will take place at the hotel particulier Baudon de Mauny, and will be in English. (For more information on John Harvey, or the book fair in general, visit http://www.comediedulivre.montpellier.f ... arvey.html )

For information, or to sign up for one of the three breakfast meetings, please contact the Association Coeur de Livres on 04.67.60.43.11.
The ‘Le Bookshop’ team
Le Bookshop
8 rue du Bras de Fer
34000 Montpellier
FRANCE
Tel./Fax: +33 (0)4 67 66 22 90
www.lebookshop.com

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Programme juin 2012

Come and visit us on the main stand of the Comédie du Livre June 1st, 2nd and 3rd - for more information visit http://www.comediedulivre.montpellier.fr

Lecture pour enfants
Tous les mercredis il est possible de réserver une lecture pour enfants avec un lecteur
anglophone. De 16h à 17h votre enfant peut écouter des histoires et apprendre l’anglais en
s’amusant. Cette activité est uniquement sur réservation au plus tard le lundi précédent la
lecture, contactez nous au 04.67.66.22.90 ou par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com

Jeudi 14 juin à 17h – jeux linguistiques / June 14th 5 PM - language games
Venez pratiquer vos compétences en anglais avec formatrice linguistique Carole Hus. En jouant des jeux linguistiques
vous travaillerez votre anglais parlé. / Come and work on your French language skills with certified FLE (français
langue étrangère) teacher Carole Hus. By means of several fun games you get to work on your speaking and listening
skills!

Jeudi 21 juin à 15h Book Presentation: “Flight” par Adam Thorpe –
discussion en anglais.
Bob Winrush is a ‘freight dog’ - a pilot of cargo planes, ferrying machinery, supplies and even
weapons from one usually benighted part of the world to another. But one day, he’s assigned
a job which even Bob thinks is too dodgy. He scarpers, abandoning his plane and crew, and
hiding out in Dubai, where he flies an Emirate prince’s private DC-10. But Captain Bob can’t
escape that dodgy deal and so he finds himself on the run again, fleeing back to Britain, where
he has to cope with the fallout from his ongoing divorce from his ex-stewardess ex-wife. He
gradually discovers more about the arms-and-drugs cargo he refused to fly as, one by one, just
about everyone connected with that toxic flight is killed.

Samedi 30 juin à 14h cercle littéraire: “The Tiger’s Wife” par Thea Obreht – discussion en
anglais.
A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above
the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy,
the tiger is a thing of magic - Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The Jungle Book. Years later, in a
Balkan country ravaged by conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, is visiting an orphanage when she receives
word of her beloved grandfather's death far from their home in mysterious circumstances.
Remembering fragments of the stories her grandfather told her as a child, Natalia becomes convinced
that he spent his last days searching for ‘the deathless man' a vagabond who was said to be immortal.
As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man, would go on such a far-fetched
journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Echanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00
Chaque lundi et vendredi anglais-français de 17h à 19h

Le Bookshop – Librairie Anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer - 340000 Montpellier
Tel./Fax : 04 67 66 22 90 - contact@lebookshop.com
www.lebookshop.com

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Venez nous retrouver à la Comédie du Livre 2012 les 1, 2 et 3 juin 2012, pour savourer les littératures britanniques.
A l’occasion de sa 27ème édition, et suite au grand succès public qu’ont rencontré les écrivains de langue allemande l’année dernière, la Comédie du Livre 2012 mettra à l’honneur les littératures contemporaines britanniques, les 1, 2 et 3 juin prochains.
En littérature adulte : Alasdair Gray, Gabriel Josipovici, Ron Butlin, Nick Barlay, Marina Lewycka, Kate Summerscale, Alan Warner, James Kelman, Sarah Hall, Jonathan Coe, Tim Parks, John Burnside, John McGregor, David Lodge, Louise Welsh, Neil Bartlett, Robert McLiam Wilson, John King

Polars et romans noirs : Roger John Ellory, Stuart Neville, John Harvey
Littérature de l’imaginaire, Science-Fiction : Christopher Priest, Iain M. Banks
Littérature jeunesse et Fantasy : Melvin Burgess, Jonathan Stroud, Anne Fine, Joseph Delaney
BD, dessinateurs : Mike Carey, Glen Baxter
Essais : Keith Dixon

Ci-joint vous trouvez le programme et le plan –retrouvez nous et les auteurs invités sur le stand F.

Cordialement,

L’équipe

Le Bookshop
8 rue du Bras de Fer
34000 Montpellier
FRANCE
Tel./Fax: +33 (0)4 67 66 22 90
www.lebookshop.com

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Programme juillet - août 2012

Lecture pour enfants
Tous les mercredis il est possible de réserver une lecture pour enfants avec un lecteur anglophone.
De 16h à 17h votre enfant peut écouter des histoires et apprendre l’anglais en s’amusant. Cette
activité est uniquement sur réservation au plus tard le lundi précédent la lecture, contactez nous au
04.67.66.22.90 ou par e-mail contact@lebookshop.com
Concert piano classique gratuit – 7 juillet à 17h : Maren Carlsen joue Debussy, Chopin,
Massenet et autres classiques.

Jeudi 21 juillet à 17h30 Book Presentation: “Between Yesterday and Tomorrow” par
Charmaine Pauls – discussion en anglais.
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow tells the moving story of how a woman deals with her trauma
after the tragic disappearance of her fiancé. Having stripped her shattered life of all emotion for
eight years, the heroine, Marlien, is suddenly forced to deal with her denial, guilt and her promise
of eternal love when her world is turned upside down by an unexpected inheritance in picturesque
Castries, southern France. As Marlien struggles to come to a decision as to what to do with the
country chateau that she has inherited, not only is her deep-buried past revived by a strange little
boy who speaks of her missing fiancé and a French veterinarian who is determined to fight the
ghost of her past for her love, but she also finds unexpected answers to the most haunting questions of her life.

Samedi 21 juillet à 14h cercle littéraire: “Night Train to Lisbon” par Pascal Mercier –
discussion en anglais.
Raimund Gregorius is a gifted but dull 57-year-old high school classical languages teacher in
Switzerland. After a chance meeting with a Portuguese woman in the rain, he discovers the work
of a Portuguese poet and doctor, Amadeu de Prado, persecuted under Salazar's regime.
Transfixed by the work, Gregorius boards a train for Lisbon, bent on discovering Prado's fate and
on uncovering more of his work. He returns to the sites of Prado's life and interviews the major
players—Prado's sisters, lovers, fellow resistors and estranged best friend—and begins to lose
himself.

Samedi 25 août à 14h cercle littéraire: “A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian” par Marina
Lewycka– discussion en anglais.

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Echanges linguistiques 17h00 – 19h00
Chaque lundi et vendredi anglais-français de 17h à 19h

Horaires d’ouverture adaptés du 30 juillet au 18 août : lundi au samedi de 13h à 19h
Le Bookshop – Librairie Anglophone / café
8 rue du Bras de Fer - 340000 Montpellier
Tel./Fax : 04 67 66 22 90 - contact@lebookshop.com
www.lebookshop.com

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From July 23rd until August 18th, Le Bookshop is on summer hours: Monday-Saturday 1pm-7pm

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29th at 2 PM
« The Marriage Plot » by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.

LE BOOKSHOP LIBRAIRIE ANGLOPHONE / CAFÉ contact@lebookshop.com WWW.LEBOOKSHOP.COM

SATURDAY OCTOBER 20th at 2 PM
« Dracula » by Bram Stoker.
Join us for this most classic of scary stories in the precipitation of Halloween. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

NOVEMBER 17th “Follow the Money” by Steve Boggan, more
information soon!

To promote the books we have selected for the book club, you have a 5% discount on all the books we read and discuss for the Book Club that year! The books are chosen by the members to make sure we read what you want to read.


LE BOOKSHOP LIBRAIRIE ANGLOPHONE / CAFÉ contact@lebookshop.com WWW.LEBOOKSHOP.COM

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Programme Décembre 2012

Especially for the holiday season we sell Christmas cards and Christmas crackers! Limited supplies, for reservations and inquiries call 04 67 66 22 90

Samedi 15 décembre l’association de la Rue du Bras de Fer/rue de la Friperie organise une journée médiéval avec entre autres un point vin chaud et une tombola

Lundi 24 décembre ouverture de 12h à 17h, l

DECEMBER 15th Book Club - “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
You know the story..... Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter old man who "will keep Christmas in my own way", which is not
at all. People cringe when they see him coming. Dogs cower. But that is all about to change. He is visited by the ghost
of his deceased partner and by three more spirits that Christmas eve, the ghosts of Christmas future. Each take him on a fantastic journey through time and space, showing him how his ways are wrong, and what will happen if he doesn't change. A timeless classic,

JANUARY 26th Book Club – “The Inverted World” by Christopher Priest
The city “Earth” is winched along train tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rivers and mountains
present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move, it
will fall farther and farther behind the “optimum inhabitants know nothing of this and that they define human existence. And yet the people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum.
just become a member of the city’s elite. But the world—he is about to discover—

Conversation exchanges 5-7 PM – Echanges linguistiques 17h00
Monday/Lundi 3, 10, 17 décembre: anglais
Friday/vendredi 8, 15, 22 décembre: anglais


Come and discover a large collection of cost price books.

Benefit from great discounts for your Christmas shopping

Le Bookshop will be closed from 25/12/2012 to 6/1/2013

The whole team wishes you a merry Christmas and we hope to see you in 2013