Join us for our January Fiction Book Club meeting on Thursday, January 4th at 5:30pm.
We will be discussing:
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain.
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This rollicking romance entrapped me! True in its detail and its scope, it is amusing yet heart-breaking. -Sir Ian McKellen
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The book club title of the month will be available for 25% off at the book club meeting and is on sale for 20% off during the entire month prior to the December meeting.
Reserve your spot here!
About the novel:
Albert Entwistle was a postman. It was one of the few things everyone knew about him. And it was one of the few things he was comfortable with people knowing. 64-year-old Albert Entwistle has been a postie in a quiet town in Northern England for all his life, living alone since the death of his mam 18 years ago. He keeps himself to himself. He always has. But he's just learned he'll be forced to retire at his next birthday. With no friends and nothing to look forward to, the lonely future he faces terrifies him. He realizes it's finally time to be honest about who he is. He must learn to ask for what he wants. And he must find the courage to look for George, the man that, many years ago, he lost--but has never forgotten. Join Albert as he sets out to find the long-lost love of his life
(*provided by publisher, John Scognamiglio Book)
"One of the things that inspired me to write this novel was all the joy I felt at seeing gay men like myself being embraced by British society. I think you'd be hard-pushed to find any other minority community in the UK that was as hated, feared and vilified as gay men were fifty years ago and is now as widely celebrated and loved. Acceptance of gay men has become a touchstone of British values within less than a decade, something that even the most optimistic commentators couldn't have predicted. I wanted to write a book that would celebrate this. And I sincerely hope The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle makes its readers feel good about themselves and the part they've played in bringing about this extraordinary social shift." - Matt Cain
About the author: Matt Cain
Matt Cain is an author, a leading commentator on LGBT+ issues, and a former journalist. He was Channel 4's first Culture Editor, Editor-In-Chief of Attitude magazine, and has judged the Costa Prize, the Polari Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. He won Diversity in Media's Journalist Of the Year award in 2017 and is an ambassador for Manchester Pride and the Albert Kennedy Trust, plus a patron of LGBT+ History Month. Born in Bury and brought up in Bolton, he now lives in London and can be found online at MattCainWriter.com.
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Matt Cain will have a new novel, Becoming Ted, being released on May 21, 2024!
Read more here!