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#TFBookClub reads ‘The Italian Teacher’ set in LONDON, NEW YORK CITY, ROME & THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
19th February 2019
#TFBookClub March/April 2019
Our first twelve outings for the #TFBookClub have seen us travel the world, seeing different locations through the eyes of authors:
- We have so far been #OnLiteraryLocation in SARDINIA with Rosanna Ley’s The Little Theatre By The Sea
- We have explored the sense of history in PRAGUE, reading Prague Nights by Benjamin Black
- We have been on a real adventure to CENTRAL AMERICA with Maile Meloy’s Do Not Become Alarmed
- We have been immersed in an intense relationship between two female writers in Exquisite by Sarah Stovell, set in NORTHUMBERLAND and the LAKE DISTRICT,
- We have met Harriet Steel’s Inspector de Silva in 1930s CEYLON (now SRI LANKA), experiencing Trouble in Nuala
- We have time-travelled to exotic GRANADA in historic ANDALUCIA SPAIN with Jane Johnson’s Court of Lions
- We have dived into the beautiful CYCLADES in GREECE with Hannah Fielding’s Aphrodite’s Tears
- We have returned to CEYLON (now SRI LANKA) with The Sapphire Widow by Dinah Jefferies
- We have gone west to CORNWALL with One Cornish Summer by Liz Fenwick
- We travelled to NORWAY, SCOTLAND and FRANCE with The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
- We were in wintry WALES with dark crime thriller Halfway by B. E. Jones
- And most recently we have endured a bitter winter and murder in SWEDEN with Red Snow, another Tuva Moodyson Mystery from author Will Dean
Our latest #TFBookClub outing takes us around the artistic world – to LONDON, NEW YORK CITY, ROME & the SOUTH OF FRANCE – with The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman.
The Costa Award Shortlisted Novel 2018
Rome, 1955
The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot.
From the side of the room watches little Pinch – their son. At five years old he loves Bear almost as much as he fears him. After Bear abandons their family, Pinch will still worship him, while Natalie faces her own wars with the art world. Trying to live up to his father’s name – one of the twentieth century’s fiercest and most controversial painters – Pinch never quite succeeds. Yet by the end of a career of twists and compromises, he enacts an unexpected rebellion that will leave forever his mark upon the Bear Bavinsky legacy.
What makes an artist? In The Italian Teacher, Tom Rachman displays a nuanced understanding of art and its demons. Moreover, in Pinch he achieves a portrait of vulnerability and frustrated talent that – with his signature humour and humanity - challenges the very idea of greatness.
‘Wickedly funny, deeply touching . . . I confess this was the first of Rachman’s novels I’d read but I was so swept away by it that I raced out to buy the other three’ – PATRICK GALE
‘Relentlessly entertaining’ – THE DAILY MAIL
Apply for a copy to read along:
If you would like to apply for a copy to read along with us during March and early April 2019, just leave a COMMENT below and tell us whether you prefer PAPER (UK only) or DIGITAL for world readers (via Netgalley) or EITHER – by midnight 28th February 2019. The first names out of the hat on Friday 1st March 2019 will be sent copies of the book. After that we can all start turning the pages and share our thoughts over the subsequent weeks.
We will be in touch at the beginning of March if you are one of our lucky readers! Don’t forget, applications close midnight, 28th February 2019!
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Would love a copy – paper ideally. Sounds just up my street.
This sounds intriguing. I’d love a paper copy if successful please.
I would love a paper copy please. i have been to italy and the south of France but have yet to visit America,
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I would love a paperback copy please
Paper please! Had such great titles from TripFiction!
Paper please!
Interested to get involved. Paper please!
Sounds like a great book with wonderful locations. Paper please.
This looks fun and interesting. I’d love a paper copy, please.
Paper copy please. Will while away airport time on my next holiday.
love the idea! Digital please )
Just came across your website. So excited to read your previous picks. I would love a copy if this month’s book please.
Digital please
Blurb sounds intriguing. Would love to read to see how it all pans out.
Paper please
Love to read this – paper copy please.
I live in Rome and I would love to read this. I’m not in the UK so it would have to be digital for me please.
Paper please.
Set in 4 fabulous locations and a great story line. Sounds excellent.
Paper please.
Digital works for me.
Looks an interesting read!
Paper, please! 🙂
Paper please x
Paper please, this sounds really good!
Paper copy please.
Sounds good, paper please x