Nobber
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Last month the book club was very grown up and tackled a real heavy weight of the literary cannon by discussing Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”. Despite the club not necessarily being made up of very serious people the consensus was that it was a real pleasure to have an excuse to return to Austen.
July’s choice, pitched by Jordan (a book club member, not the country in the Middle East), is a total contrast and is the absurdist Plague comedy “Nobber” by Oisin Fagan set in Ireland during the Black Death. In it …
“an ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the summer of 1348, using the advantage of the plague which has collapsed society to buy up large swathes of property and land. They come upon Nobber, a tiny town, whose only living habitants seem to be an egotistical bureaucrat, his volatile wife, a naked blacksmith, and a beautiful Gaelic hostage. Meanwhile, a band of marauding Gaels are roaming around, using the confusion of the sickness to pillage and reclaim lands that once belonged to them. As these groups converge upon the town, the habitants, who up until this point have been under strict curfew, begin to stir from their dwellings, demanding answers from the intruders. A deadly stand-off emerges from which no one will escape unscathed”.
Runners up in the pitching were:
Exit Ghost by Isabella Hammond
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The talented mr ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brittany
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha ha by Roddy Doyle
Last month the book club was very grown up and tackled a real heavy weight of the literary cannon by discussing Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”. Despite the club not necessarily being made up of very serious people the consensus was that it was a real pleasure to have an excuse to return to Austen.
July’s choice, pitched by Jordan (a book club member, not the country in the Middle East), is a total contrast and is the absurdist Plague comedy “Nobber” by Oisin Fagan set in Ireland during the Black Death. In it …
“an ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the summer of 1348, using the advantage of the plague which has collapsed society to buy up large swathes of property and land. They come upon Nobber, a tiny town, whose only living habitants seem to be an egotistical bureaucrat, his volatile wife, a naked blacksmith, and a beautiful Gaelic hostage. Meanwhile, a band of marauding Gaels are roaming around, using the confusion of the sickness to pillage and reclaim lands that once belonged to them. As these groups converge upon the town, the habitants, who up until this point have been under strict curfew, begin to stir from their dwellings, demanding answers from the intruders. A deadly stand-off emerges from which no one will escape unscathed”.
Runners up in the pitching were:
Exit Ghost by Isabella Hammond
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The talented mr ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brittany
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha ha by Roddy Doyle
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