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Marlborough District Library (Blenheim) Book Club

The next Blenheim Book Club meeting will be Thursday 28 March at 6.30 pm.

The theme for this meeting will be Time and Space.

See below for what the Blenheim Book Club have been reading. The theme was weather.

Picton Library Book Club

The next Picton Book Club meeting will be early this month due to Easter. The next meeting will be Thursday 28 March at 6.30 pm.

The theme for this meeting will be International Women's Day.

Book Club Reviews

Snowpiercer, Volume 1: The Escape by Jacques Lob

Adult Fiction

On a future, frozen Earth, humanity has been packed onto self-sustaining trains, doomed to circumnavigate the globe until the end of the interminable ice age - or until the engines give out. When a scrap of music piques their interest, the inhabitants of the Icebreaker take the ultimate risk and cross the frozen ocean, a vast expanse with no train tracks and no way to return to them.

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Land of Snow and Ashes by Petra Rautiainen

Adult fiction

Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young Finnish soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war.

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Ashes in the Snow by Oriana Ramunno

Adult Fiction

A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943. It's snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer. A detective with everything to prove, Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the renowned Nazi. But Hugo is hiding a secret - he is suffering from a degenerative disease.

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The Summer Party by Rebecca Heath

Adult fiction

After two decades of silence, Lucy is back in Queen's Point. She hasn't planned on staying long. But when human remains wash up on the freezing beach, the police close the town. Unable to leave, Lucy is forced to rekindle old friendships and examine old truths she has long ago tried to forget. As long-buried secrets start to surface, Lucy must decide. Will she confront the past and tell the truth? Or will she still do anything to protect the people she loves.

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Empire of the Sun by JG

Adult fiction

Shanghai, 1941, a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war and the dawn of a blighted world.

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The Snow Tiger by Desmond Bagley

Adult fiction

Fifty-four people died in the avalanche that ripped apart a small New Zealand mining town. But the enquiry which follows unleashes more destructive power than the snowfall. As the survivors tell their stories, they reveal a community so divided that all warnings of danger went unheeded. At the centre of the storm is Ian Ballard, whose life depends upon being able to clear his name.

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