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- [Nov 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/10/18/nov-2025-meeting/) - For our meeting in November, we are reading The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai. Jacket Synopsis: When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only
- [May 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/05/15/may-2024-meeting/) - For our meeting in May, we read The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff. Jacket Synopsis: For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife... Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband - a rumour
- [April 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/04/15/april-2024-meeting/) - For our meeting in April, we read Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey. Jacket Synopsis: An extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynasty Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain
- [July 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/07/15/july-2024-meeting/) - For our meeting in July, we read The Horse by Willy Vlautin. Jacket Synopsis: Willy Vlautin's most personal novel yet - a poetic and deeply moving story about what it really takes to be a musician. 'There's a horse', he whispered. 'An old horse that's standing in front of my house. He's blind and he
- [Aug 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/08/15/aug-2024-meeting/) - For our August meeting, we read This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud. Jacket Synopsis: June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in
- [April 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/04/15/april-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in April, we read Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Jacket Synopsis: Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been
- [Jan 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/01/15/jan-2025-meeting/) - For our meeting in January, we read Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon. Jacket Synopsis: Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction. Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads. They’re fading in the baking heat, but
- [Nov 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/11/15/nov-2024-meeting/) - For our November meeting, we read Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst. Jacket Synopsis: Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it
- [Sept 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/09/15/sept-2024-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in September, we read My Friends by Hisham Matar. Jacket Synopsis: Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy.
- [Oct 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/10/15/oct-2024-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in October, we read Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. Jacket Synopsis: Seductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder,
- [Feb 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/02/15/feb-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in February, we read The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller. Jacket Synopsis: December 1962, The West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also
- [March 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/03/15/march-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in March, we read The Boy From The Sea by Garrett Carr. Jacket Synopsis: 1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland's west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope
- [May 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/05/15/may-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in May, we read Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood. Jacket Synopsis: Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. But disquiet
- [July 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/07/15/july-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in July, we read Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell. Jacket Synopsis: During Pamela Churchill Harriman's life and even after her death, in 1997, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true accomplishments. She was one of the most powerful women of the 20th century and there is practically
- [Aug 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/08/15/aug-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in August, we read The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler. Jacket Synopsis: It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a cafe on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory
- [Oct 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/10/15/october-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in October, we read Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd. Book Synopsis Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer,
- [Sept 2025 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2025/09/15/sept-2025-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in September, we read Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. Jacket Synopsis: In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to
- [Dog Man: Lord Of The Fleas by Dav Pilkey](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/dog-man-lord-of-the-fleas-by-dav-pilkey/) - Junior book review submitted by Ben Ryan, age 7 years, for Dog Man: Lord of The Fleas by Dav Pilkey. Ben’s drawing highlights Lil Petey’s super claw action
- [Dog Man: Unleashed by Dav Pilkey](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/dog-man-unleashed-by-dav-pilkey/) - Junior book review submitted by siblings Matthew, age 5 years, and Claire, age 7 years, for Dog Man: Unleashed by Dav Pilkey.
- [Harry Potter’s And The Phliosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/harry-potters-and-the-phliosophers-stone-by-jk-rowling/) - Junior book review submitted by Aoibheann, age 6 years, for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling.
- [The Nickel Boys](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/17/the-nickel-boys/) - If you’ve never read any of Colson Whitehead’s previous books, this is a fine one to start with. Based on the real story of the Dozier Reform School in Florida, a miscarriage of justice sentences the main character to the “care” of The Nickel School and its staff. This is not just about brutality and
- [Dog Man: Unleashed by Dav Pilkey](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/dog-man-unleashed-by-dav-pilkey-2/) - Junior book review submitted by Lewis, age 7 years, for Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey.
- [Amelia Fang and the Unicorn Lords by Laura Ellen Anderson](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/amelia-fang-and-the-unicorn-lords-by-laura-ellen-anderson/) - Junior book review submitted by Nadine, age 7½ years, for Amelia Fang and the Unicorn Lords by Laura Ellen Anderson.
- [Lily At Lissadell by Judi Curtin](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/lily-at-lissadell-by-judi-curtin/) - Junior book review submitted by Emily, age 10 years, for Lily At Lissadell by Judi Curti
- [My Mum Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/my-mum-tracy-beaker-by-jacqueline-wilson/) - Junior book review submitted by Ciara, age 11 years, for My Mum Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson.
- [Mr Penguin And The Fortress Of Secrets by Alex T. Smith](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/mr-penguin-and-the-fortress-of-secrets-by-alex-t-smith/) - Junior book review submitted by Maryanne Awerbuck, age 6 years, for Mr Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets by Alex T. Smith.
- [The House On Hawthorn Road by Megan Wynne](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/the-house-on-hawthorn-road-by-megan-wynne/) - Junior book review submitted by Emily, age 9 years, for The House on Hawthorn Road by Megan Wynne.
- [The Beast Of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/10/15/the-beast-of-buckingham-palace-by-david-walliams/) - Junior book review submitted by Finn, age 10 years, for The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams.
- [The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue-by-v-e-schwab/) - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue tells the story of a young woman who, in 18th century France, makes a deal with a devil to live forever but be remembered by no one. Addie lives the next 300 years as a ghost, experiencing history as it happens but unable to leave her own mark on
- [Jan 2021 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/jan-2021-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in January, we read the 2020 Man Booker Prize Winner, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. With themes of poverty, addiction, abuse and sexuality, the book club found this an engaging, gritty and at times surprising read, (the false teeth sparked a mini debate…) Book Club Rating Jacket Synopsis: It is
- [Feb 2021 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/feb-2021-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in February, we read the One Dublin One Book choice for 2021, Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession. A tender and unusual story of male friendship, the book club thought this book celebrated the quieter people and ordinary moments in life, thereby making it the perfect lockdown read. Highly
- [March 2021 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/march-2021-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in March, we read Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan, winner of the 2020 Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year. Rural Ireland of the 1970s is the backdrop to this story of unorthodox relationships and the enduring power of love. Book Club Rating Jacket Synopsis: In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney
- [June 2021 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/june-2021-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in June, we read Ten Days by Austin Duffy. An intense portrait of bereavement and a family in crisis. A father reconnects with his daughter following his wife’s death, but their future relationship looks uncertain. Book Club Rating Jacket Synopsis: When Wolf’s recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire
- [Sept 2021 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/sept-2021-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in September, we read Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. A highly original book that resulted in a lively discussion about what it means to be a woman and Japanese culture. The book also highlighted the importance of translation and voice with some of the book club preferring one half
- [Oct 2021 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/oct-2021-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in October, we read The Pages by Hugo Hamilton. The narrator of this book is the novel, Rebellion, by Joseph Roth. This provided much discussion on the role of books and the idea that they may have a separate life of their own to bear witness was intriguing and original.
- [Nov 2021 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/nov-2021-meeting/) - In November, we read The Magician by Colm Toibin. This is a fictional account of Thomas Mann’s life. Toibin gives an insight into the author’s rigorous devotion to his craft and his complex relationship with his family and his sexuality. An active opponent to Nazism, Mann was initially embraced by the US government on his
- [Perfume by Patrick Susskind](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/perfume-by-patrick-susskind/) - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man who possesses an extraordinary sense of smell and will stop at nothing in his quest to find the perfect scent. The narrative descriptions of scent in this book are amazing. The character of Grenouille is challenging, at times repulsive, at other
- [The Fell by Sarah Moss](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/the-fell-by-sarah-moss/) - Remind yourself of the tensions and claustrophobia of the first winter of the Coronavirus pandemic with this short, excellent novel by Sarah Moss. The Fell is set in the Peak District. Kate and her 16 year old son, Matt, are self-isolating after Kate is identified as a close contact of a work colleague with Covid.
- [Ruth and Pen by Emilie Pine](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/ruth-and-pen-by-emilie-pine/) - Ruth & Pen is Emilie Pine’s debut novel. Fans of Pine’s essay collection Notes to Self will find that Ruth & Pen engages with many of the same themes in Pine’s distinct voice. Ruth & Pen tells the story of a day spent in Dublin by two unrelated characters: 16 year old Pen and 43
- [The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/the-lost-cafe-schindler-by-meriel-schindler/) - The Lost Café Schindler is the story, told in relation to one family, of Jews in Austria before and during World War 2. Meriel Schindler was born and brought up in England, with an Austrian Jewish father. Meriel had a strained relationship with her father Kurt, who was something of a Walter Mitty character, and
- [Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/13/small-pleasures-by-clare-chambers/) - 1950s London is the setting for Small Pleasures and features Jean, a journalist, who normally writes a column on household tips, but gets wind of the highly unusual story of a woman who believes her daughter to be the result of an immaculate conception. She receives her editor’s permission to investigate the implausible. This is
- [All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/07/all-our-hidden-gifts-by-caroline-odonoghue/) - All Our Hidden Gifts is Caroline O’Donoghue’s (Promising Young Woman, Scenes of a Graphic Nature) first venture into Young Adult fiction and certainly does not disappoint. Maeve Chambers has never enjoyed school and now that she no longer talks to her ex-best friend Lily, she feels more out of place than ever. Her popularity unexpectedly
- [Heartstopper by Alice Oseman](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/12/heartstopper-by-alice-oseman/) - Heartstopper is a heartwarming graphic novel series aimed at teens and young adults. Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson have never met until they are put sitting next to each other in class. Charlie - openly gay and highly-strung - is soon falling head over heels for Nick, a rugby lad who Charlie’s friends say is
- [Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/12/carrie-soto-is-back-by-taylor-jenkins-reid/) - Much like Daisy Jones and the Six and Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto is Back tells the story of a fictional female celebrity, this time spanning roughly from the mid 1950s to mid 1990s. Carrie Soto is a champion tennis player. Coached by her father, Javier Soto, she set record after record in women’s tennis, retiring
- [Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/12/amazon-unbound-by-brad-stone/) - Amazon Unbound tells the story of Jezz Bezos and more specifically the company he founded, during a period of unprecedented growth from 2010 to 2020 when Amazon’s market value hit the one trillion dollar mark, and Jeff Bezos’ personal wealth exceeded that of many countries. What’s someone who works in an Independent bookshop doing reading
- [Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/13/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-by-olga-tokarczuk/) - Set in a remote Polish village, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead is the story of a reclusive and somewhat eccentric woman who gets involved in a series of mysterious deaths in the village and takes it upon herself to investigate these crimes when the local police fail to take her seriously.
- [The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/13/the-rachel-incident-by-caroline-odonoghue/) - The Rachel Incident is a book full of love, heartbreak and all the countless messy emotions that dominate your twenties. Set in 2010s Cork, it tells the story of Rachel and James, two best friends who develop an obsession with Rachel’s hot (married) professor. What starts as an inside joke leads to an intensely dramatic
- [Good Material by Dolly Alderton](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/14/good-material-by-dolly-alderton/) - Until this year, I had somehow never read a Dolly Alderton book. She’s always been one of those authors who I’ve been meaning to read (and am sure I’d like), I just never got around to it. That is, until I got my hands on an early copy of her newest book Good Material. I
- [Feb 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/03/11/feb-2024-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in February, we read The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos. The book club enjoyed the style of this quirky, farcical French novel and found it a palate cleanser after some heavier reads. Though they only awarded the novel 3.5 stars, they all thought the book was worth reading.
- [The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/02/29/the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry-by-gabrielle-zevin/) - A.J. Fikry is a grumpy bookseller who knows exactly what he likes (short story collections) and what he dislikes (almost everything else, including his customers). He is struggling to get by alone after the loss of his wife and the theft of his most prized possession. When two-year-old Maya is left in the shop with
- [Jan 2024 Meeting](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2024/01/29/jan-2024-meeting/) - For our book club meeting in January, we read Absolution by Alice McDermott. The book club loved the first section of the book - Tricia's experiences in Saigon, her encounters with Charlene, her naivety when it came to both world and personal affairs. The book club wanted more from the second section of the book
- [Twin Power: The Lost Cup by Emma Larkin](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/29/twin-power-the-lost-cup-by-emma-larkin/) - Book review by Maeve, age 10. The book that I read was Twin Power: The Lost Cup. I liked that it was exciting and fun. I learned about friendship and how it is important to play fairly. It showed me that winning is not always the end goal. Another good thing is that you do
- [In Between Worlds by Nicola Pierce](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/27/in-between-worlds-by-nicola-pierce/) - Book Review by Róisín, age 12. The book that I read was In Between Worlds, by Nicola Pierce. It’s about a girl called Maggie, and describes her life throughout the Great Famine. We see how quickly her life changes, from being calm and peaceful, to desperate and frantic. This book showed me what it was
- [The Wager by David Grann](https://thecompanyofbooks.ie/2023/11/27/the-wager-by-david-grann/) - The Wager is the story of the British ship of the same name, which set out in 1740 as part of a fleet looking for treasure-laden Spanish galleons. Shipwrecked off the coast of Patagonia, two separate groups of survivors somehow made their way to Brazil. The book provides an insight into the conditions at sea

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