Feb Book Club: Hard by a Great Forest with Leo Vardiashvili
Mar 4, 2024 ·
41m 3s
Welcome back Bookends, we apologise for the delay on this one but after some difficult news last week we needed to postpone editing. Here is our Feb Book Club episode...
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Welcome back Bookends, we apologise for the delay on this one but after some difficult news last week we needed to postpone editing.
Here is our Feb Book Club episode with the astounding debut author Leo Vardiashvili, his book Hard by a Great Forest has been endorsed by the likes of literary legend Khaled Hosseini and was swept up by Bloomsbury in an overnight pre-empt and we cannot emphasise enough how much we loved it.
On this episode we discuss Leo's experiences as a refugee and how that informed his novel, Georgian hospitality, the hysterical true story of Zoo animals storming the streets of his home town and so much more. Please do rate, review & subscribe if you enjoy this episode, it helps us hugely!
If you wish to buy Leo's book (you should!): https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13480/9781526659828
To follow Leo: Goodreads & Twitter
For more exclusive content from us please head on over to our Patreon
You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Tik Tok
Leo's upcoming events:
https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2024/march-21/memories-of-flight-fictionalising-georgias-2008-war-with-russia
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-leo-vardiashvili-tickets-779317618977
Books discussed on this episode:
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
Thanks so much for listening. Until next time, happy reading! Han & Lyd x
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Here is our Feb Book Club episode with the astounding debut author Leo Vardiashvili, his book Hard by a Great Forest has been endorsed by the likes of literary legend Khaled Hosseini and was swept up by Bloomsbury in an overnight pre-empt and we cannot emphasise enough how much we loved it.
On this episode we discuss Leo's experiences as a refugee and how that informed his novel, Georgian hospitality, the hysterical true story of Zoo animals storming the streets of his home town and so much more. Please do rate, review & subscribe if you enjoy this episode, it helps us hugely!
If you wish to buy Leo's book (you should!): https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13480/9781526659828
To follow Leo: Goodreads & Twitter
For more exclusive content from us please head on over to our Patreon
You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Tik Tok
Leo's upcoming events:
https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2024/march-21/memories-of-flight-fictionalising-georgias-2008-war-with-russia
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-leo-vardiashvili-tickets-779317618977
Books discussed on this episode:
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
Thanks so much for listening. Until next time, happy reading! Han & Lyd x
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