Our Featured Author, Joe Dunthorne, author of Wild Abandon is thinking about the questions posed to him by this months' Reading Group, The Monmouth Creative Writers.  They were thought provoking so he's taking his time and they will be up on the Penguin Readers' website shortly.

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Out this month, the Metro have called Ancient Light, an 'enjoyable look back at a life well spent - with an ending that transforms all that comes before it' while the Observer commented 'Banville, with his forensic sensory memory, his great gift for textural (and textual) precision, his ability to inhabit not just a room, as a writer, but also the full weight of a breathing body, is exactly in his element here.'

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The Monmouth Creative Writers Reading Group group review Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne. They thought that 'the witty and honest fun that Dunthorne has created denies all possible foreboding and dark theories, and instead leaves the satisfying feeling of having read a thoroughly enjoyable, interesting, and wonderfully written coming-of-age novel'.

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Jessica Harrison, Editor, Penguin Press has chosen Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell.  She remarks 'it's such an extraordinary novel I can't believe it's not more widely known and loved here'. It's 'incredibly funny, thanks to Connell's wonderfully sly narrative style' and 'the kind of novel where nothing much happens, and yet everything happens'.

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We asked our Featured Author, Joe Dunthorne, author of Wild Abandon to recommend his favourite books to our readers. Once again, David Foster Wallaces' 'masterpiece' Infinite Jest is a top choice and we have an appearance from Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist whose narrator is 'exquisitely damaged, funny, warm and pompous'.

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On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. We have 10 copies of The Chaperone to give away

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The Olympics take centre stage this month and it's all about sporting greats. Are there any books that inspire you to mighty deeds? Tell us on the Penguin Readers' Forum.

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