Petersen's Read & Wine - July
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Welcome to Petersen's Read and Wine Book Club!We'll be focusing on fiction for this club, primarily new release that covers a wide range of genres including contemporary, Australian authors, romance, crime/thrillers and more. Each month we'll explore a different genre as chosen by the members.
In July, we'll be reading John of John by Booker Prize winning author Douglas Stuart.
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.
While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son's long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.
You can choose to BYO book (you might borrow a copy from a friend, through the library, prefer audio or purchase elsewhere) or you can purchase the book through Petersen's Bookstore. Just select your preference when you RSVP.
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Date
Thursday 30 July 2026 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
Petersen's Bookstore
1/103 High Street, Hastings Victoria 3915
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Petersen's Read & Wine - July
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