Toby Litt - 16th May

Author Toby Litt- Author of 'Adventures in Capitalism','Beatniks','Corpsing','deadkidsongs',
'Exhibitionism','Finding Myself','Ghost Story','Hospital' and his most recent 'I Play the Drums in a
Band called Okay'. Exclusive to Book Club, Toby revealed that his next book is called 'King Dead'.

For more about Toby, go to www.tobylitt.com

Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
In a house haunted by memories,the past is everywhere.As darkness falls,a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights.It is a place he will never forget.There he will come to learn the story of Cathy:how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority,convention, even death. And how desire can kill.

Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos
Published in 1782,just years before the French Revolution,"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is a disturbing
and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former
lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an
innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman.
But as their intrigues become more duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways
they could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious, and deadly, than Merteuil
and Valmont could have guessed.

U and I - Nicholson Baker
is a non-fiction study of how a reader engages with an author's work: partly an appreciation of John
Updike, and partly a kind of self-exploration. Rather than a traditional literary analysis, Baker
begins the book by stating that he will read no more Updike than he already has up to that point.
All of the Updike quotes used are presented as coming from memory alone.

Collected Stories - John Cheever
These stories of American award-winning novelist, John Cheever, show the power and range of one of
the finest short story writers of the century. Stories of love and squalor, set in a world in which
momentary glimpses of brightness contend with time, social change, and the chaos of history.