Richland Library Ballentine
All Booked Up
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Join us for a book group discussion of this month’s title, The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession, by Charlotte Lovett. For more information or to arrange to pick up a book, call Stephanie Mastrocesare at (803) 781-5026.
"After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays."
All Booked Up meets the second Tuesday of every month at Richland Library Ballentine.