Book Club at Bullhouse East
This month we will be reading Wild Houses by Colin Barrett. Join us on Monday August 23rd at 6pm.
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and small-town secrets that won’t stay buried
As Ballina in the west of Ireland prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer Cillian English and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night, he finds Doll—Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother—in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his dead mother's dog, and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy.
Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling that something bad has happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious Friday night, and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina.
Colin Barrett was born in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009 he completed his MA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin and was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. This novel has been long listed for the booker prize 2014!.
The book club is free to attend. However if you could please kindly let us know you will be attending by securing a ticket online so we can then workout the amount of space we will require at the venue.
The club kicks off at 6pm (Monday 23rd September)
The address is: Bullhouse East, 442-446 Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 1HJ
Thank you and see you there!