Results tagged “Outliers” from Liverpool Echo - First Rule of Book Club

Just returned from holiday and, of course, I stashed a few books in my luggage!

I grabbed The Piano Teacher at Manchester Airport, concerned the three I'd packed (Outliers, Everything is Illuminated and The White Tiger) wouldn't be enough.

It was lucky I did, I finished the last book the day after we landed home so I judged it exactly right.

Soooo, why choose it? ...

It's always nice to add a new book to 'The Pile'.

'The Pile' is unlikely to ever run short - it would take a publishing crisis running into several millennia and the destruction of every Penguin Classic ever printed.

Particularly seeing as 'The Pile' only exists in my mind and generally changes depending on what mood I'm in.

I am - of course - referring to the list every book lover has of 'what I'm going to read' topped generally by 'what I'm going to read next'...

Lots of lovely things coming up for book lovers across Merseyside.

We've got author Malcolm Gladwell (pictured) on his way to Philharmonic Hall, so more on that in a bit.

There's lots going on at independent booksellers News from Nowhere plus South African author Gillian Slovo is on her way to talk about her latest novel.

There are also forthcoming performances of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists...