# Event Details - **Event Name**: Short & Satisfying Book Club: "Businessmen As Lovers" by Rosemary Tonks - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 12 Oct, 2026 at 11:00 am – Mon, 12 Oct, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: The Short and Satisfying Book Club is led by Georgia Court. October's selection is an extraordinarily jubilant and delightful novel.About this EventThe Short and Satisfying Book Club led by Georgia Court is for those looking for a shorter read that is ripe for discussion. October's selection is Businessmen As Lovers by Rosemary Tonks, a wickedly funny, sun-soaked 1969 novel newly back in print. Set among friends, lovers, eccentrics, and expats on an Italian vacation, it's 160 pages of romantic entanglements, social satire, sharp observations, and Mediterranean mischief. We will meet in person at our store location at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $16.95 which includes a copy of Businessmen As Lovers to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting.ABOUT THE BOOK:Mimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture capitalist, an Iranian tycoon, and a villainous, slightly tragic local dentist. There is also Mimi’s great love, Beetle, a quiet and unassuming English journalist. As everyone begins to relax and settle into the vacation, drinking and eating away the stress of everyday life, their impish plots culminate in an odd Mediterranean prank involving the dentist’s prize lemon tree.Back in print after many decades, Businessmen as Lovers is an extraordinarily jubilant and delightful novel by the inimitable Rosemary Tonks: businessmen fall in love, too, but it is with each other.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) published two poetry collections and six novels, and wrote for The Observer, The Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Statesman, and Encounter, and presented poetry programs for the BBC. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sarasota/short-and-satisfying-book-club-businessmen-as-lovers-by-rosemary-tonks/100001997980789325 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, meetups, business - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Bookstore1Sarasota - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 20.11, max: 20.11, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Sarasota - **state**: FL - **country**: United States - **location**: Bookstore1Sarasota - **lat**: 27.3360054 - **long**: -82.54159059999999 - **full address**: Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. 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