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Literary Circle Lunch

Literary Circle Luncheon

Monday 20^th May 2024

The Occupation series: A talk by Chris Lloyd

There will be a meeting of the Literary Circle on Monday 20^th May 2024 in the Westgate Room.

Chris will speak about how he came to write The Occupation series and will consider the notions of resistance and collaboration in Occupied France, the moral choices to be made, and the rival factions among both the occupied and the occupiers. 

Chris Lloyd lived in Catalonia for over twenty years, working in teaching, educational publishing and as a Catalan and Spanish translator. He has also lived in Grenoble, Bilbao and Madrid. He writes the Occupation series, about a French police detective in Occupied Paris. The first, the Unwanted Dead won the 2021 HWA Gold Crown for best historical novel of the year. The second, Paris Requiem, was a Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023. He now lives in Penarth.

He has also written the Elisenda Domènech series set in Girona, featuring a police officer in the devolved Catalan police force. The head of an experimental Serious Crime Unit, she fights the worst of human excesses in the most beautiful of settings.

The meeting is open to all members of the Club and their guests. Members are asked to contact the office by emailing admin@cardiffandcountyclub.com to make your reservation or telephoning 029 2022 0846.

Sparkling wine will be served from 12.30pm to be followed by a two-course lunch (smoked salmon & prawns, chicken and ham pie, with alternatives available if requested in advance) at 1.00pm. Those attending will have the cost of food and drink debited to their Membership Card.

An apology: those who attended the previous lunch (at which Sir Malcolm Pill spoke) are due an apology. Having arranged for the purchase of two wireless and rechargeable collar microphones, in order to ensure a good quality of sound for our lunches, it was found at very short notice on the day of the lunch that, for technical reasons, these were unable to be used. I am assured that the new microphones will be available at all future literary lunches, whichever room is used.

The next following meeting will be on Monday 8 July at which Adam Sisman will talk about the subject of his biography of John Le Carré (David Cornwell).

David Lermon

Chairman, Literary Circle